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...forty years have passed since Scarlett O'Hara, spurned by Rhett Butler, sat down on the stairway of her Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...
While producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown were counting on the audience identifying with the victims (and so delayed release of the film until the start of beach season), director Steven Spielberg seemed to be going for the pure fun of it. He knocks out the extramarital affair that pads out the best-seller as well as most of the character conflicts and shoots for the thrills. The only problem is that character development in the novel not only served to relieve tension, it also offered several different, presumably philosophical perspectives on the beast. Matt Hooper, the icthyologist, sees...
This is just the way Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown envisaged the movie's impact. That is why they delayed its release until the beginning of the beach season. Says Zanuck: "There is no way that a bather who has seen or heard of the movie won't think of a great white shark when he puts his toe in the ocean." Vacationers are in fact flocking in ever greater numbers to the seashore. As for the jammed local moviehouses, they are treacherously playing on nerves. One Cape Cod theater runs a telephone tape that announces, "Jaws...
...that kept anguished executives from shutting everything down and restaging the movie in the studio tank was that they were backing an adaptation of a proven commodity, a best-seller of numbing durability. There are over 5½ million copies of Jaws in print. Producer Richard (son of Darryl) Zanuck and his partner David Brown paid $175,000 for the movie rights and a Benchley script...
...year some old lion still in power was being proclaimed the last tycoon. Television killed the first set of old men, angry stockholders and ravenous conglomerates killed the second. Louis B. Mayer, the feared stable master of the great M-G-M dynasty, went under in 1951; Darryl F. Zanuck, truncheoning all comers, held out twenty years longer, finally going under with the Japanese planes in his $25,000,000 Tora, Tora, Tora! They were monarchs, intuitive monarchs. But they were the "I wouldn't-let-my-daughter-see-a-movie-like-that" types, despite the fact that they...