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Justice was swift in the Old West; vengeance is mined in the New Hollywood. United Artists, which had rashly built the film's publicity campaign on the hope of rave reviews, withdrew Heaven's Gate in the wake of devastating pans. And the rash spread. Within days, all Hollywood was being held responsible for one director's profligacy, one studio's negligence. Every big-budget movie was the target of japery: Robert Evans' Popeye became "Evans' Gate," Warren Beatty's forthcoming Reds was "Warren's Gate...
...epic Western. He was hot. He had an unlimited budget. But a painfully limited talent, $35 million worth of hubris. When the film opened in New York last November it received universally poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from N.Y. theaters after only one week. Cimino promised to re-edit the film from its 225 minutes to a more conventional length of 2 1/2 hours. Unprecedented humiliation in Movieland...
...withdrew its support from the El Salvadoran government, the result would be "polarization" of the many factions and the "killing of 200,000 people." Robert Pastor, National Security Council adviser for Latin America, said...
...Such superficial tokens of change may have pleased the young but they were too much for tradition-minded Frenchmen who greeted the new style with ridicule. Explains a Western diplomat in Paris: "The French don't want a Jimmy Carter-like President." Wounded Giscard dropped his experiments and withdrew to the dignity of his office...
...hand. One theory has it that the Soviets originally made a decision to intervene, and then changed their minds. A second is that the exercises were a contingency measure. Yet there is a third way of looking at it; that the threat was the invasion. The Soviets withdrew because they felt they had temporarily accomplished their purpose. Even if they decide to invade after all, the threat will already have done a certain amount of damage. Anticipation always goes deeper than surprise. And the Poles will have been attacked in the war of nerves long before those famous tanks...