Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author is also trying to square accounts with the network concerning another property: an ABC collaboration with Paramount Pictures on Holly Golightly, a TV pilot based on Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. He always hated the movie version ("a mawkish valentine to Audrey Hepburn") and predicts that a TV spinoff, starring Stefanie Powers (The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.) will be even more "jerky." The fact that highly seasoned producing and writing talent is at work on the show fails to moderate Capote's opinion. He insists that he will not stand for the TV version "if they...
...Paramount began shooting Holly Golightly party scenes on its Hollywood lot last week. Capote still threatens to get even with ABC. He is now toying with "three or four new television story ideas, one really amusing," and all of them, he says, will go to some rival network...
Shalako--Sean Connery and a heavily made-up Brigitte Bardot in a western which instinct tells us isn't much good. To be reviewed next week. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St. across from Raymond...
...Judelson and Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, who put the firm together a decade ago and who remains very much the man in charge, Gulf & Western has become a $1.3 billion-a-year conglomerate by buying up some 70 companies in fields as diverse as metals (New Jersey Zinc) and movies (Paramount). But it has never been in the oil business. For its part, Sinclair is the nation's tenth biggest oil company; its 1967 sales were $1.5 billion and its profits $95.4 million. Because it has a relatively small amount of common stock outstanding (12,500,000 shares...
...Gundown--Mr. Ugly hits town. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St. across from Raymond...