Word: lions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What bothers me more than giving away $5 billion plus in these times of our own economic necessities is knowing that the lion's share is going toward more and more weapons and military might-all in the name of peace...
Comedy is not my forte. I don't know how this movie will come out. And yes, I'm scared. I'm like the Cowardly Lion, and two successes back to back have not strengthened my belief in my ability to deliver." Surely that Cowardly Lion can't be Director Steven Spielberg, whose blockbusters, Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, have already grossed $630 million. It is, however, and he has an explanation for his chattering teeth: "All the movies I've made are different. Jaws was not like Close Encounters, and neither...
Spielberg began working on the picture before Close Encounters. His pal John Milius (The Wind and the Lion) brought around two young writers with their script about the California invasion scare. "I gagged on it," Spielberg recalls, "but I was leery. When a script is so funny that you gag, that's really the kiss of death because it usually doesn't film that way." But when Milius backed out he took it on. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the scriptwriters, flew to the Close Encounters location in Alabama and the three would rearrange schemes and characters. Says...
Frances Sternhagen's Ethel is more than a comforter. She is a diminutive fortress of a woman. Brave, resilient, compassionate, she has spent a lifetime taming and pampering her paper lion. But with all that, she cannot seem to restore Norman's faltering appetite for living. In his first Broadway play, Ernest Thomp son, 29, soundly realizes that it takes young blood to send old blood coursing...
...rapid collapse of Amin's rule began a week ago when long-range Tanzanian artillery pounded Mbarara and Masaka, garrison towns held by what were supposed to be Amin's elite forces, the Suicide Regiment and the Simba (Lion) Battalion. These troops not only surrendered; some even joined the anti-Amin forces. Late last week Tanzanian units and various anti-Amin groups began pushing north of Masaka toward Kampala, 80 miles away. But a Ugandan tank force managed to retake the garrison town of Tororo, near the Kenyan border, which had briefly fallen to the rebels...