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Nagata believes that there should be a U.S. market for three to five topnotch Japanese films a year, and that each should gross $1,000,000. For Japanese moviemakers, this would mean big profits, since their costs are low. Top salaries for stars are about $11,000 a film, extras make 80? a day, and the average cost of a full-length black and white film is only around $63,000 v. $900.000 in the U.S. And, says Nagata: "By showing the Japanese countryside in all its beauty, we can attract tourists and more dollars"-as well as stimulate...
Hardly ever before in peacetime has U.S. public interest in foreign policy run so broad and so deep. The fall publishing season has brought a batch of foreign-policy books, including four by authors with topnotch reputations: George F. Kennan, onetime (1947-50) director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff; Charles Burton Marshall, a top State Department planner under Dean Acheson; F.S.C. Northrop, Sterling professor of philosophy and law at Yale, noted for such provocative books as The Taming of the Nations, The Meeting of East and West; and Adlai Stevenson, titular head of the Democratic Party...
...Rear Admiral (ret.) Bertram Groesbeck Jr., former commanding officer of the famous Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. As the state's first commissioner of mental health, Craig picked an unlikely looking candidate: a handsome, 41-year-old blonde with grey-green eyes, Dr. Margaret Elaine Morgan, a topnotch Indiana psychiatrist. Governor Craig was not deterred by the fact that her brother, Ivan H. ("Jack") Morgan, was feuding with him in G.O.P. councils (he has since booted the brother out of party office, kept the sister on at a higher salary than his own-$20,000, highest...
...week's most stirring question-not finally answered-was: Would Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, who broke up their topnotch Show of Shows team last spring, do as well separately as they did together? With his own Caesar's Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC), Sid began with a fine skit in a cafeteria, went on to a funny getting-dressed scene. But when Guest Star Gina Lollobrigida showed up, he switched from well-paced pantomime to goo-goo-eyed mugging that suggested Milton Berle...
...also a power in ANTA (American National Theatre & Academy), all three members of Producers Theatre, Inc. stay close to Broadway. In its beehive offices on Times Square, a score of picked young actors meet thrice weekly to read and recite; from them, Producer Whitehead hopes to build up a topnotch repertory group. In Venice, P.T. is already filming The Time of the Cuckoo (star: Katharine Hepburn). But the triumvirate is just beginning to branch out. Tycoon Dowling hopes eventually to put actors, directors and playwrights on a salary status, "as at General Motors," so that talented people can stay...