Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Italian Actress Marilu Tolo took a crash course in English in Los Angeles and( is now speaking it-with brio-in a Greek drama on the island of Corfu. Tolo is on the set of The Greek Tycoon, the saga of a shipping magnate (Anthony Quinn) who chucks his mezzo-soprano mistress (Tolo) in order to marry the widow of an assassinated U.S. President (Jacqueline Bisset). All fantasy, of course. Tolo (pronounced Taw-lo) described her part as that of "a famous opera singer, a tempestuous, explosive character" who is "not Maria Callas." If there is any resemblance...
...stars of the film, a saga of CB truckers based on C.W. McCall's 1975 hit song, are more charitable. "Only Sam knows what he's doing, but I trust him," says Ali MacGraw, who is trying to make a movie comeback as a chic photojournalist who falls in love with a trucker. "Sam is like an old dog you sometimes have to apologize for," says Kris Kristofferson, the trucker Ali falls for. A more direct comment comes from Burt Young, who played Talia Shire's crude, ugly brother in Rocky and who goes...
Bluhdorn is hoping to repeat the success of The Godfather with one of the dozen or so movies that Paramount will introduce this year: Orca, the saga of a killer whale, produced by Dino de Laurentiis, or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, a Richard Brooks adaptation of the best-selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions...
...Atlanta, Associate Editor James Atwater on Saturday wrote our account of how America's No. 1 prisoner escaped, and Senior Writer Ed Magnuson described the conspiracy theory that surrounds the assassination of Ray's victim, Martin Luther King Jr. Our Nation staff pieced together the Ray saga, as our World and International staffs began work on another late-breaking story, the Dutch marine attack on the South Moluccan kidnapers; their story on the raid includes an eye-witness account by TIME'S Peter Kronenberg...
Superstripper. Then there is the saga of Frank Burford, who as recently as 1973 was making $19,000 a year. In 1976 his income was more than $4 million. He became a superstripper-of coal. A former Emory University law professor, Burford returned home to West Virginia in 1967 to liquidate his ailing father's highway-construction business. Instead, he and a cousin revved up the company, branched into trucking and started hauling coal. The partners took over a money-losing coal company and started acquiring leases on vast carboniferous acreage. When coal prices soared in the wake...