Word: distributor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flew from Washington to Knoxville, Tenn., and back aboard the private jet of Knoxville's United American Bank, from which Lance has a $443,000 loan outstanding. Then the plane ferried Lance and his wife to New York. Later, a plane owned by Atlanta Newspaper Distributor Edward Elson flew the couple back to the capital, gratis...
...Within the past year, while Penthouse in particular has made its inside text more blatant and kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more money for news dealers than any other magazine, is concerned about the small-town Midwest distributor "whose wife plays pinochle with all the local wives." On request, Guccione supplies free "blinder racks" to any dealer so that only the name of the magazine shows...
...Last Tango look like tiddlywinks. The new picture is a year late, $5 million over budget, and-with a running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from a series of psychosomatic ills that he calls "the 1900 syndrome...
Bertolucci's best hope seems to be his unfinished four-hour, 25-minute compromise cut-if it exists. Grimaldi contends that the only usable negative of it has been destroyed; Bertolucci disagrees. A small U.S. distributor with friendly ties to Bertolucci, Caribou Films, is now pressing Grimaldi to bring forth the compromise cut so it can negotiate for the rights. If that does not work, says Bertolucci, "I may have to break into the studio where Grimaldi has locked it up, steal it and circulate it underground...
Kopple considered trying to distribute the film herself, decided against it, and rammed through a tough deal with Cinema 5, a major independent film distributor. Harlan County has been shown in Appalachia for free, people with union cards got a dollar off the admission price, and Kopple gets ten benefits a year, of which "I've already used 12." The film opens in 40 theaters across the country this week. It's already been used in one benefit Kopple knew nothing about, and probably would have opposed--Arnold Miller raised $10,000 for his re-election campaign to the UMWA...