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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaves were canceled, and President Kenneth Kaunda issued orders to "shoot on sight" any Rhodesian aircraft that violated his country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls-an attack that did not prove serious enough to cancel the nightly sundowner cruise for tourists along the Zambezi River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Brief Encounters in a Hopeless War | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...will cost well over $12 million. Paramount has in the works Dino De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong ($16 million or so). United Artists will ultimately release a version of Cornelius Ryan's tome on World War II, A Bridge Too Far, produced by Joseph E. Levine. UA's Apocalypse Now is a Viet Nam extravaganza presently being shot in the Philippines by Godfather Director Francis Ford Coppola. Total cost of the latter two movies: at least $30 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES,PERSONALITY: Reaching for the Brass Ring | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...ASIDE from isolated scenes, the film is so dishonest and uninteresting that all the talk which builds it up as an unprecedented masterwork will probably leave you embittered -- especially if you shell out UA's asking-price at $4.50 a look. There is no story: the characters' lives are composed of sensationalistic incidents, and the motives for the way they live are never developed or explained. At film's beginning, Paul, the American expatriate, is just a ravaged romantic, and at the end he is a dead one. Jeanne, a babied product of the Parisian middle-class, is throughout nothing...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Right Between the Legs | 4/14/1973 | See Source »

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