Hollywood Studio Magazine (September 1971)
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CONTENTS TAKE IT FROM THE TOP . 4 Teet Carle covers the Movie and TV field ROY CUMMINGS DEBUTS D’ANTON CINEMATECQUE 6 and Lee Graham covers the opening Robert Kendall LEE GRAHAM’S MAN ABOUT TOWN. 8 SOL FRIED: RUN-A-WAY PRODUCER . 10 ROLEX Jack Ong DOWN MEMORY LANE . 11 Where yesteryear stars are today . Jess Hoaglin ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY “BEWITCHING STAR” . 13 INSIDE TRACK with Bea Colgan . 15 Busy executives find the Rolex Day-Date a great News from Major Studios . convenience. Its superlative 30-jewel chronometer movement tells day of the week, date, hour, minute PIED PIPER TO 5 MILLION KIDS. 2 8 and second. Automatically. Its precision is pro¬ Jack Tierney tected by the handsome Oyster case, carved from a solid block of 18kt gold, and guaranteed to a ROSEMARY AWARDS - FOR REMEMBRANCE .... 31 depth of 165 feet*. With matching 18kt gold brace¬ Thomas Fulbright let, $1,150. ~‘:With case, crown and crystal intact. 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The Japan is a big market for “foreign” Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in “pays man says 81 features have been made (27 films, no fewer than 777 theatres now of Wine and Roses,” Bing Crosby in “The first half of ’71) of $ 1 million and under showing movies made outside Japan’s Country Girl,” Robert Stack in “Written class. The majority, the story reported, own active industry. The rest of the on the Wind” or a number of others. have been made in Hollywood as a base world took $34 million from there last or direct. Great for all those wives of year. * * * technicians who like to see husbands Welk Network.... most of the time. No longer do big personalities threaten So, turning to the production chart in A hiccup amusing ? to shoot themselves when cancelled by the same issue, one finds 40 “currently The American Medical Association has network TV. The syndication boom shooting” movies. Eight were filming in just called for deglamorization of seems to be louder and more “the movie capitol.” The others showed excessive drinking in show business reverberating than ever before. six in England, two in Spain and one each media, such as TV, movies, stage and When Lawrence Welk’s show was in Munich, Stockholm, the Holy Land, night clubs. The AMA bewails the fact cancelled after 16 seasons, the Italy, Mexico, Sicily, Africa, France, that too many entertainers think “wunnerful”, man listened to experts talk Ceylon and Roumania. alcoholism is amusing and that prestige about the 18 to 50 age group, of which The USA got in all right. Four in New lies within the man who can “really hold Welk presumably had no staggering share. York, two in Northern California and one his liquor.” No other ages counted. But more than each in Prescott, New Jersey, New Glorified portrayals of men 200 non-network stations will show the England, Georgia, South Dakota, New (sometimes a femme) in state of tipsiness program this fall to more than 50 million Mexico and Solvang. Rumor also was has worried a lot of spouses of drunks video sets. printed that a new studio is about to go inasmuch as problem drinker needs only * * * up in Ojai. That’s getting a little closer. the excuse of emulating that lush on the boob tube to keep up his old ways or Please the buffs expand his excessiveness. That is pretty Sale of books on and about motion Your driving, Bud ! expensive identifying, since chronic pictures is one of the modern miracles. So alcoholism (surely come by if boozing The Pennsylvania State Senate has just it is good silent “camp” for Viking Press keeps on) is the world’s Number Three passed a measure banning X-Rated movies to publish MGM’s classic screenplays of killer disease. from Drive-In Theatres in order to the past in a Library of Filmscripts. The Dramatic films and TV have done “protect the public on highways and first column, out in January, will include nobly on the subject, but unfortunately streets from accidents caused by full and annotated shooting scripts on it’s the nature of the alcoholic to be more distraction. “Ninotchka,” “North by Northwest” and A nude gal, 30 feet tall, walking smack “Adam’s Rib.” April brings “A Night at into the face of a driver is too much the Opera,” “A Day at the Races” and competition for concrete paving. Isn’t it “Singin’ In the Rain.” hazardous enough to life, limb and emotions to drive boulevards populated by mini-skirts and hot pants or Italian films beach-front drives where a bikini is more It must be a little frustrating to those than a island in the Pacific. who strive to make Hollywood film production boom again to read that the Italian government has passed a measure Films & Cassettes to aid movie makers there to the tune of $20,800,000. It covers five years and 85% In a recent column, Charles Champlin will go for production. The remainder of the Los Angeles Times stated that no more than a half dozen movies are doing goes to exhibition and theatres. Italian what could be considered respectable Parliament agrees that movie-making is national business. His word of alarm was one of the nation’s three largest that: “The deeper the financial gloom, industries. Tourism and building are the Jack Staggs has been elected Executive others. the more caution enters production and Director of the Motion Picture and caution hasn’t yet produced any great art. Television Relief Fund by the organization’s Or earned much money.” Board of Trustees. Staggs replaces William Meanwhile, the less cautious seem high T. Kirk who has been retained as consultant. on filming for video cassettes outlets. The Kirk, who has been ill for several months, Records for Hollywood latest word is that a whopping market is will continue in the advisory capacity. Often overlooked is the fact that 4 Hollywood has become the record capital The surprising thing is that most, if of the country. not all of them, get an abundance of MCA has just joined the rush West and entries and do well financially.