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1<br />
T EON P.<br />
Hollywood<br />
BLENDER, American International's<br />
executive vice-president in<br />
charge of sales and distribution, and Robert<br />
Steuer, assistant general sales manager, returned<br />
from AIP national sales and promotion<br />
meetings in Tucson, Ariz.<br />
*<br />
Sheldon Mittleman has been promoted<br />
from assistant house counsel to house counsel<br />
for Universal Studios, succeeding Joe<br />
Di Muro, who has reached retirement age.<br />
Di Muro will continue as a consultant.<br />
*<br />
World Wide Film Corp. premiered<br />
"Youthquake!" at the Preston. Aquarius<br />
and Casa Linda theatres in Dallas Friday<br />
(8), preceded by a promotional concert and<br />
picnic Saturday (2).<br />
•<br />
Pinnacle Productions has been formed to<br />
produce feature films and has lined up as<br />
its first project a $3.5 million World War<br />
II epic, "Com-Tac 303." Officers of the<br />
Beverly Hills-based company are Ray<br />
George, chairman of the board; William<br />
Gordon and James Doherty, vice-presidents;<br />
Joseph L. Cranston, vice-president<br />
and secretary-treasurer, and William A.<br />
Trowbridge, president.<br />
•<br />
Producer-director Hikmet Avedis has<br />
changed the title of his feature "The<br />
Young Migrants" to "Texas Detour." The<br />
film stars Patrick Wayne and Cameron<br />
Mitchell.<br />
*<br />
Universal Pictures will take aim at target<br />
audiences for its "Smokey and the Bandit,"<br />
a story about a wild cross-country trucker<br />
chase filmed in Georgia. The film, starring<br />
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, opens, nationally<br />
in May and June. Advertising is<br />
timed to appear in eight truck, motor and<br />
specialty magazines to coincide with the<br />
debut. Ads will appear in June in Road &<br />
Track, Popular Hot Rodding, Rider, Truckin",<br />
ed in<br />
Trailer Life and Argosy. An ad appear-<br />
March in Street Scene and next month<br />
Happenings<br />
PSA/ Hughes Air West In-Flight<br />
Magazine<br />
will carry an advertisement.<br />
•<br />
MCA's special college scholarship award<br />
for 1977, to benefit employees' children,<br />
has gone to Steven Mittleman, 17, son of<br />
Sheldon Mittleman, associate counsel for<br />
MCA and a vice-president for Universal<br />
Pictures and Universal Television. Steven<br />
will be graduated from Taft High School<br />
in Woodland Hills in June and will attend<br />
UCLA where he plans to study medicine.<br />
•<br />
Director Robert Moore has scheduled<br />
two weeks of rehearsals starting May 2<br />
for Neil Simon's "The Cheap Detective,"<br />
Rastar production for Columbia Pictures<br />
a<br />
starring<br />
Peter Falk.<br />
•<br />
Rastar's "The Goodbye Girl" began a<br />
month-long shooting schedule in New York<br />
Tuesday (5) after completing six weeks of<br />
filming at MGM Studios. The first New<br />
York sequence was a comedy scene with<br />
Marsha Mason and the Subaru display at<br />
the Auto Expo Show. Other locations will<br />
be Shubert Alley, Showcase Studios, Open<br />
Space Theatre, Metropole Cafe and the<br />
Roosevelt Island tram. The Warner Bros,<br />
presentation is from Neil Simon's original<br />
screenplay.<br />
Dracula Society Selects<br />
Annual Award Winners<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Ida<br />
Lupino and Christopher<br />
Lee are cinema winners of the 15th<br />
annual Radcliffe awards presented by the<br />
Count Dracula Society of Los Angeles. Dr.<br />
Donald A. Reed, president of the society,<br />
said that the awards will be presented at a<br />
gala dinner at the University Hilton, University<br />
of Southern California, Saturday<br />
evening (30), with 500 members and friends<br />
expected to attend.<br />
The society, a non-profit association devoted<br />
to the serious study of horror films<br />
and Gothic literature,' also will present<br />
AU<strong>TO</strong>MATION XENON FIL ^^PORT SYl<br />
5 REPA<br />
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awards to Jay Robinson and Grimsley, a<br />
local TV star, for television achievements;<br />
to Bob Cremer, for "Lugosi: the Man Behind<br />
the Cape," Dr. D. P. Varma, for<br />
editing "The Castle of Otranto," and Dr.<br />
Stephen Kaplan, literature. Presenters will<br />
include Ray Bradbury, Rouben Mamoulian,<br />
Gayna Shireen, Forrest Ackerman, Walt<br />
Daugherty, Frank R. Saletri, William Marshall,<br />
George Pal, Rich Correll, Kris Vosburgh<br />
and Edward Ansara.<br />
Variety 25 Holds First<br />
Annual Tennis Tourney<br />
LOS ANGELES—The first<br />
annual Variety<br />
Club of Southern California Tent 25<br />
tennis tournament, held at the Ambassador<br />
Tennis and Health Club was highlighted<br />
by a celebrity match between the Los Angeles<br />
Rams' Bob Klein and John Cappelletti<br />
vs. ABC newsman Jerry Dunphy and critic)<br />
Regis Philbin. Klein and Cappelletti won;<br />
the match 6-2, 6-3. The match was con<br />
trolled by noted umpire Sarg Burns, presi<br />
dent of the Southern California Tennis Um<br />
pires Ass'n.<br />
Other winners were Bob McKay and<br />
Suzanne Sproul in Class A, Tim Mclntyn;<br />
and Alison Winston in Class B and Man<br />
Michaelson and Eileen Cohen in Class C<br />
Announcements of the winners were mad<br />
by Murray Propper, president of the asso<br />
ciation which is dedicated to helping handi<br />
capped and underprivileged children.<br />
The first annual tournament attracte<br />
over 80 players and was followed by<br />
buffet-dinner at the Ambassador Hote<br />
Awards and door prizes were distributed. I<br />
Chairman of the event was David Weij<br />
man, vice-president. Variety Club Tent 21<br />
Members of the Variety Boys Club, undij<br />
the direction of Louis Diaz, served as b&<br />
boys.<br />
New LA Tiffany to Show<br />
'Kiss Me Kate' in 3-D<br />
LOS ANGELES—"Kiss Me Kate," I<br />
1953 MGM musical, will be shown in 1<br />
original 3-D version during a limited ei<br />
gagement here at the new Tiffany Theat:,<br />
Operated by Tom Cooper, the Tiffany is tt<br />
only theatre in the U.S. equipped with le<br />
two-projector system required to show ie<br />
original process 3-D films, according o<br />
United Artists Classics, the company !<br />
leasing "Kiss Me Kate."<br />
The film, based on a Cole Porter hit til<br />
had a long Broadway run, stars Kath'D<br />
Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Boby<br />
Van, Bob Fosse and Carol Haney.<br />
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Cin-Art Has Split Policy<br />
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tures an innovative programing patm<br />
with a new policy of "Something or<br />
Everybody." The house, located at 02<br />
Court St., has 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. screenigs<br />
of "your favorite ladies of the peno<br />
screen," with 6 p.m. to midnight showlgs<br />
of "big hits featuring incredible dudes fkni<br />
all male cast films." Senior citizens areji<br />
mitted at half price.<br />
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BOXOFFICE :: April 11,