Original Publication: New West Magazine, April 24, 1978. “…With the controversial ‘Pretty Baby,’ he joins the growing list of foreign directors making movies here. It’s not been easy for them…”…
Read moreIn person, Travolta, who has specialized in playing kids from the wrong side of the tracks, is more like the boy next door. He sprawls on his living room rug, half under the Christmas tree, eagerly expounding on acting and jumping up to demonstrate a disco dance step.
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Richard Pryor is in movies, on records and on television. Nonetheless, the question remains: can the hottest black comic around remain true to his angry self and make it as a superstar in mostly white America?
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It was the legend of Elvis that mattered to the fans who came to Memphis to say
goodbye.
For over a year, one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, Francis Ford Coppola, had been shooting “Apocalypse Now,” a film about the “untouchable” subject of the Vietnam war. Life on the set – four different locations in the Philippines – also escalated quickly to apocalyptic dimensions.
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Original Publication – Newsweek, April 25, 1977 “Our goal is to conglomeratize the world. We try to maximize everything vertically and horizontally. It’s a natural flow of men reaping the…
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