Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first place. Consensus: Antonioni is a smart 57-year-old who knows that whatever's happening isn't happening in Italy and has ventured in search of an important audience. This much is true: when Antonioni waves an American flag outside the window of a soul-less real estate tycoon, he is not out to educate his audience as much as confirm their existent prejudices. A Jesus Saves sign looms briefly out poor Rod Taylor's window. Here I air a prejudice of my own. I would rather have my symbols built openly into a-film's structure (like Hitchcock...
Like any young tycoon, he is brimming over with expansion projects. Among them: starting a consumer finance magazine, buying an art magazine, and taking more of his bundle into Britain, where the institutional-investment community has not as yet found anyone with Kaplan's flair...
...Hollywood film making, therefore, is cutting budgets and cutting losses. Some of that $100 million debit was just a realistic write-off or write-down on properties in the works or even in the can that could never net as much as originally projected. In November, the last tycoon of old Hollywood, Jack Warner, retired from the studio bearing his name. But even before his formal send-off (on Sound Stage No. 7, where the "Great Hall" set from Camelot is still unstruck), 45 of Warner's 62 pending projects were unceremoniously jettisoned. In the old days, a major...
Speaking of theater critics, his least favorite people, David Merrick once snapped: "I want people to stop swallowing the pap these mediocrities are churning out." But as a prosecution witness in the obscenity trial of the raunchy off-Broadway sex-and-protest farce Che!, the Broadway tycoon churned out some pretty potent criticism of his own: "Patently offensive, vulgar, lewd and very dull." Playwright Lennox Raphael, in Merrick's view, "had no talent whatsoever and should seek vocational guidance...
Legal Battles. In the 30 years Kay has been with Gund, the company's biggest hits have been a floppy slumber dog called "Regal Beagle" and a series of Walt Disney stuffed toys. But this -"it's incredible," moans the 54-year-old laugh tycoon. To keep on top of orders, Kay has stopped commuting to his home in The Bronx and has taken a hotel room near his shabby Fifth Avenue showroom. "It's impossible," he adds. "It's just like a tornado...