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Show m.W'BMK.MfiiQrwMi.u Connection II," "Funny Lady," and "Return of the Pink Panther." Upcoming are "That's Entertain- ment, Too," "Billy Jack III," and a flock of other sequels and remakes. The fault of major the Hollywood pioneers was that they expected to live forever and never trained replacements. Thus we have Lew Wasserman running MCA, Stanfill Dennis 20th MARCELLO MASTROIANNI ?P3 III JiniayLLUl WITH CH1ARA, 3, HIS CHILD BY FRENCH ACTRESS RHF-S0M1- ET become it birth of his daughter, so much. Now is apparent numher-on- male e star, is about to anni was celebrating the Chiara, by Catherine Deneuve, the French actress who refused to marry DAUGHTER BARBARA these him. Now, Mastroianni' s oldest daughter, Barbara, is expecting a child by her good friend, Stefano Patrizi, a young actor who. appeared in the Luchino Visconti film, "Gruppo di Famiglia." Film Soviets recently asked Fiat to increase DEAL Italian automobile giant, designed and built an $800 million auto plant in Togliattigrad in the Soviet Union. In this factory the Soviets are now producing the Lada a stronger and sturdier version of the 124, designed Only three years ago Mastroi- AND HIS PREGNANT for rough Russian roads and climate. They are producing them at the rate of 600,000 a year and are underselling Fiat in the British market by about $800 per model. The Soviets also plan to market the Lada in the U.S. at an as yet undisclosed price. their European Common Market has to protect itself against the dumping of autos in the in auto-manufactur- ing capacity, but Umberto Agnelli, managing director of Fiat, says not without some export controls. "What is the sense," he asks, "of showing the Soviets how to double their production capacity if they are going to take our markets away from us?" Agnelli says the West fast-shrinki- Euro- ng "If the Sto sell in pean market. oviets want Europe and the U.S.," he says, "then they should open their market for cars in the Soviet Union." is The way down. executives who run the studios haven't the idea of what the slightest wants or will buy. public As a result they hire other executives and place them in charge of produc- tion. Thus, when a few films bomb, the corporation executive, while retaining his own job, replaces his production chief with another poor soul. The system, of course, calls for the top exec to survive in the corporate jungle no matter what. In the old days of the gambling Hollywood pirates, L. B. Mayer Zanuck at at 20th Cohn MGM, Darryl Century-Fo- at x, running Steven Ross running Warner Bros., and Alan Hirschfield or David Begelman running Columbia Pictures. There is no record that any of The are quick learners. Several years ago, Fiat, the Fiat a grandfather. Pregnancy can "be hidden only that Marcello Mastroianni, Italy's screen CATHERINE DENEUVE, Century-Fo- x, C- Harry olumbia, Jack Warner at Warner Bros. these men accepted the risks and responsibilities of film production. Today the cautious ones have taken over. The result is a pley-it-sa- fe policy reflected in fewer and fewer films and more and more sequels. For example, we have had of late, "Godfather II," "Airport 1975," "French ever produced a men feature film. One of est education products in Japan is a toilet tissue called "Please English." The product is marketed by an enterprising Yokohama paper firm, Kiyotomi Shigyo Company, which found itself overstocked with thousands of rolls of toilet paper and decided to capitalize on the study-consciousn- of ess Japanese consumers. Each unit of a roll consists of six seamed sheets on which English is printed word and its an Japanese equivalent. "This enables the user," explains a company spokesman, "to read over and over again the six English words until the roll of tissue is exhausted." "Please English" originated was by Takezo Su- zuki, 49, president of the firm, who says he hit upon the idea when he overheard mothers at a PTA meeting how to help discussing their children develop English vocabularies. According to Suzuki, females will learn more English words than males because in Japan, 75 per cent of all toilet tissue is used by females. "We are selling," he announces proudly, "more than 7000 cases a month of our 'Please English' toilet tissue." |
