Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...scene was a supper party celebrating the opening of Maria Callas' first film, Medea. And who should be prominently in the foreground? None other than Old Boyfriend Aristotle Onassis. Sans Jackie, of course. The former famous twosome even got together during Christmas holidays while Jackie was in England with her children. Won't Mrs. O. mind? "Jackie is tough," says Ari. Just how tough-and in which way -remains to be seen...
...reason and balance, and journalists are starting to feel that the balance is being abused by subpoenas. As Richard Wald, vice president of NBC News, says: "Subpoenas have become easy ways for prosecutors to fish around." Such fishing can tie up newsmen in the search for old film clips and notes, as well as endanger the relationship of trust that must exist between a reporter and the people he interviews...
...legend of Orpheus, the poet who charmed all nature with his lyre, and his descent into Hades in search of his lost Eurydice, has captivated artists and writers since antiquity. Film Maker Marcel Camus (Black Orpheus) and Playwright Tennessee Williams (Orpheus Descending) have put the legend into modern dress. But no contemporary artist has found the myth so richly allusive and central to his art as Sculptor Varujan Boghosian...
...Hollywood is at high noon. Stanley Jaffe has leapfrogged over Evans to become chief operating officer at Paramount. The high-priced stars are being cut down to size, and the masters of business administration are taking over the studios, or what is left of them. A new generation of film-company executives are suddenly trying to cope with economic realities that their fathers and uncles refused even to recognize. During the past few years, for example, 20th Century-Fox wasted a great deal of thought on whether and when to change its name to 21st Century-Fox; meanwhile disastrous pictures...
Wharton School. In 1969, five of the seven major film companies were in the red and, together, lost more than $100 million. Inevitably, conglomerate wheeler-dealers and proxy challengers have moved in, trying to cash in on such assets as film libraries and real estate. Gulf & Western Industries took over Paramount; Transamerica Corp. and Kinney National Service bought out United Artists and Warner Brothers...