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Show Friday, November 17, 1989 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah ArtsEntertainment B7 Two Hollywood film makers examined PETER By witnesses, Puttnam used an indusit, he was to stress quality over try dinner as an opportunity to ROBERTSON American Library Assn. OUT OF FOCUS: POWER, PASDAVID SION, AND PREJUDICE HOLLYWOOD IN PlITTNAM Charles Kipps. Morrow. 416 Puttnam parent company. As - Book Reviews By pages. $22.95. witnessed. The length of time between planning, production and release means that movies like "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (a film Puttnam championed) and "Ghostbusters II" (a film he firmly opposed) have only recently made it to the big screen. Puttnam came to Columbia with production credits more noble than bankable. Although both "Chariots of Fire" and "The Killing Fields" were critical and commercial successes, his films were more notable for their lofty foreign tones, tight budgets and modest profits, if any Last year, Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, who rarely contributes Articles to her own magazine, wrote a piece called "Hollywood Knives." In it, she chronicled the rise and fall of a filmmaker, culminating in the unexpected succession, and tenure of Englishstormy one-yeman David Puttnam as chairman and CEO of Columbia Pictures. ar Charles Kipps, a staff writer at Variety, is the latest in a long line of journalists eager to explore the Industry at its most secretive and treacherous. The result is: "Out of Focus: Power, Passion, and PrejuDavid Puttnam in Hollydice . at all. Puttnam believed in an unspoken mandate from his employers, in this case, Coca-ColColumbia's wood." The Puttnam legacy is still being 2424 N. University Pkwy.. a, L2 7 O M T Karate KidW :30 9 55 co-st- ar WEAPON stereo BACK! m i3La stereo flreamTeafli 1 1 STEREO I rininrrrini YOUNG hi III VI Mil IF37.40STEREO' 1:30 3:X Zoe-tro- :50 :35 3:35 5:35 35 9:35 11:45 IN STEREO 9.3011:401 Liiuumiu low-budg- et Lethal 715 9 40 1230 ElD 1 2:05 4:30 7:10 9:50 12:15 magic 4 55 By Michael Goodwin's and Naomi Wise's reckoning, it has been six long years since director Frances Ford Coppola made a good film. And even that wasn't a complete film, as they point out in "On the Edge: The Life and Times of Francis Ford Coppola" merely the first long half of his fascinatingly flawed "Apocalypse Now," the stuff before Marlon Brando filled the screen. Before that, the former boy wonder of the UCLA film school served his apprenticeship with master Roger Corman, cut his cinematic teeth with fellow film student George Lucas and made three celluloid masterpieces (both segments of "The Godfather" and the "The Conversation"). Since then, Coppola has seen his star wane, his studio concept dry up, his filmmaking become characterized by formulaic fluff ("Peggy Sue Got Married" and "The Cotton Club") and intensely personal works fail KEATOH the 1205 STEREO 12:50 2:55 GHOSTBUSTERS II ("Biloxi and lost the services of noted director Norman Jewison, who left in a huff and took "Moonstruck" with him. He squabbled with mega-star- s like Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Bill Cosby and Bill Murray. Cosby subsequently blamed Puttnam for the sinking of his "Leonard Part 6." Warren Beatty took Puttnam's public criticism of "Reds" to heart. Hoffman Also, Beatty and both felt that their "Ishtar" project was handled in a slipshod manner. "Ishtar" was a celluloid disaster. According to several reluctant Blues") niciiOLsorj THX Certified Auditorium m the Provo'Orem area. STEREO Ray Stark producer in THX represents the ultimate in movie picture and sound quality AH elements of audio peiicmance. engi. neering, design, accous-ticsand components meet strict standards. We are proud to oHer Jhe only ED IN SHOWS ALL LUCAS FILMS THX STEREO &H00CH castigate Bill Murray for contributing little of his enormous wealth to the finer aspects of filmmaking. Murray wasn't amused, and Columbia's chances of signing Murray for the "Ghostbusters" sequel sank. Kipps subjects the beleaguered studio executive to a relentlessly sharp focus. His character emerges gradually from a sea of contradictions talk of artistic mandates mixed with attacks on the package method mixed with his own apparent cronyism his hiring a bunch of his British buddies, to decidedly mixed commercialcritical effect. The bottom line, as they like to say in Hollywood, appears to be that Puttnam angered many, didn't play the Tinseltown power game for one solitary second, and, more importantly, lost a whole bunch of studio money in the process. ON THE EDGE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ' FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA By Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise. Morrow. 448 pages. product, the abandonment of the package system whereby star, director and story seemed inextricably and incestuously linked. Puttnam further vowed to end the industry's rampant "cronyism." He was sidetracked from the beginning. He fought with independent VAJl smm-- - . $22.95. STEREO TMIR saw ALL SEATS IN HANKS 1:20 3 20 5:20 7:20 9:20 11:35 f'W 1 IN financially and critically ("One From the Heart" and "Tucker"). Photo courtesy of Pageant of the Arts cover "Saying Grace," a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post will be featured in the 1990 Pageant of the Arts. Pageant of the Arts offers gift certificates Utah Pageant of the Arts production dates for the 1990 season will to 21 according be June accepted at $3 off the usual ticket price. This will be the largest discount for the 1990 season, according to marketing director Betty G. David O. Broekbank. producing director. Spencer. Center section seat.-;- , regular The Pageant will be presented nightly at American Fork High price of $12. just $9 Certificate School auditorium, except Sundays price. Side section seats, regular and July 4, Broekbank said. price (if $10. just f7 Certificate Christmas gift certificates for the price. Each Gift Certificate is good for 1990 season are available at 25 per cent off the regular price, to ex- one ticket to be redeemed at the Pageant box office, permitting press the appreciation of the Pagthose receiving the Gift Certificate eant board and staff for the fine to select the date of performance 1989 the prosupport patrons gave to them. duction. The certificate will be a most convenient Certificates will be returned by who those for deserve unique gift first class mail the day your order an "extra-speciagift. The certificate will be the right size, right is received. Spencer said. Certificate offer letters have gone color and right price. This is a out to most 1989 patrons. Please great gift for yourself, too. write Utah Pageant of the Arts, This is the offer: through Dec. 20 P.O. Box 111, American Fork, Utah orders for Gift Certificates will be 84003, for further information. ly l" J "TWO THUMBS TENTH " ANiyWM! ebert GREAT FILMMAKING." MIKE CLARK TUESDAY HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON UP!"-siseel&- USA TODAY $2.50 xmUiEs and Misdemeanors 4:45 7:10 9:30 Sat & n (PG-13- ) RATING Gl'IDK KOK KAM1I.IKS G: "General Audience." A film most parents iul(i fimi suitable fir the entire family. PG: "Parental Guidance Suggested." Parents an- (autioncd they would probably consider some material unsuitable fur children. 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