Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business and pleasure trip? For Actors Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry, of course, the business was the British premiere of their hit movie, Kramer vs. Kramer. On hand for the glittering opening at London's Odeon Theater was another well-known family, the Windsors. "Will the film make us cry?" asked Queen Elizabeth II, chatting with eight-year-old Justin, who nearly stole the show in his first acting assignment. Said he: "It might. It made my mom cry. Four times...
...everyone is bullish on bovies. Irving Wallace, who has sold nine novels to film makers, has doubts: "The studio will be telling the writer: 'Can't you get some visual excitement into...
Garson Kanin, whose bestseller Moviola resulted from a complex collaboration between Wolper Productions, NBC and Simon & Schuster, feels that while the trend may be "very good because it gets a kind of interest and attention for the book, danger can come if film people try to steer the writing. Then we're back in Ghastlyville...
...film-book writers, the next few years will determine whether they are working in Ghastlyville or Oz. No matter what transpires, one group will never suffer: the producers. If fresh material ever runs out, they need only heed the advice offered by Will Rogers half a century ago: "If the movies want to advance, all they have to do is not get new stories but do the old ones over-as they were written...
...voices. Much of his book reads as if it were hastily dictated in airline terminals and then punched into a word processor. Exclamations like "versatility is 'in' " could have been inspired by a Paris fashion show. He can sound as grim as Charlton Heston in a disaster film or as upbeat as a born-again Christian, or, as diversified Third Wavers might prefer, a Zen Baptist. There are also some hot-tub exhortations: "As Third Wave civilization matures, we shall create not a Utopian man or woman who towers over the people of the past, not a superhuman...