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Hollywood is beyond parody. Almost anything said or written about it, no matter how absurd, somehow, somewhere, some time comes close to the truth. Author Richard Condon, who spent 22 years as a pressagent for Producers Cecil B. DeMille, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, et a!., has tried to defy that basic Hollywood tenet by inventing a story so preposterous that it cannot possibly seem real. He has only partly succeeded...
...autocracies that used to welcome creative geniuses like France's Jean Renoir with lavish contracts and then crush their talent with assembly-line production techniques. The old dinosaurs in the corner offices have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily American. Hollywood is bankrolling movies all over the globe...
...likely to blur Warhol's image as the Zanuck of the nonmovie. The sound track, regrettably, is as clear as a hi-fi record, and the film is as much in focus as the average overground flick. After wobbling his camera in 60 or so pictures, demonstrating that film making is all in a flick of the wrist, could it be that, in his cinematic technique, Andy is finally going straight...
Bigger Haul. One factor in the improvement of movie fortunes is the success of road shows, the reserved-seat blockbusters that are increasingly occupying the major theaters. "Road shows," says 20th Century-Fox President Darryl Zanuck, "have put motion back in motion pictures and put the industry back in high gear." It was Zanuck's exploitation of the road show, beginning with The Longest Day in 1962, that turned the Fox ledger's $40 million loss that year into a $12.5 million gain in 1966. Altogether this year, the studios will release eight road-show films, next year...
...Zanuck and his counterparts have found, as one of them put it, that "the road show is a gamble over a longer haul for a bigger haul." The haul is longer because hard-ticket attractions involve higher production and promotion costs; and since they generally play only once or twice a day in only one theater, they can't gross as much, even with their higher admission prices, as the standard release that runs five times a day all over town. The haul gets bigger, however, when the hard-ticket show goes into the second-run, or "grind," theaters...