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Hollywood
BLENDER, American International's
executive vice-president in
charge of sales and distribution, and Robert
Steuer, assistant general sales manager, returned
from AIP national sales and promotion
meetings in Tucson, Ariz.
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Sheldon Mittleman has been promoted
from assistant house counsel to house counsel
for Universal Studios, succeeding Joe
Di Muro, who has reached retirement age.
Di Muro will continue as a consultant.
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World Wide Film Corp. premiered
"Youthquake!" at the Preston. Aquarius
and Casa Linda theatres in Dallas Friday
(8), preceded by a promotional concert and
picnic Saturday (2).
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Pinnacle Productions has been formed to
produce feature films and has lined up as
its first project a $3.5 million World War
II epic, "Com-Tac 303." Officers of the
Beverly Hills-based company are Ray
George, chairman of the board; William
Gordon and James Doherty, vice-presidents;
Joseph L. Cranston, vice-president
and secretary-treasurer, and William A.
Trowbridge, president.
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Producer-director Hikmet Avedis has
changed the title of his feature "The
Young Migrants" to "Texas Detour." The
film stars Patrick Wayne and Cameron
Mitchell.
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Universal Pictures will take aim at target
audiences for its "Smokey and the Bandit,"
a story about a wild cross-country trucker
chase filmed in Georgia. The film, starring
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, opens, nationally
in May and June. Advertising is
timed to appear in eight truck, motor and
specialty magazines to coincide with the
debut. Ads will appear in June in Road &
Track, Popular Hot Rodding, Rider, Truckin",
ed in
Trailer Life and Argosy. An ad appear-
March in Street Scene and next month
Happenings
PSA/ Hughes Air West In-Flight
Magazine
will carry an advertisement.
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MCA's special college scholarship award
for 1977, to benefit employees' children,
has gone to Steven Mittleman, 17, son of
Sheldon Mittleman, associate counsel for
MCA and a vice-president for Universal
Pictures and Universal Television. Steven
will be graduated from Taft High School
in Woodland Hills in June and will attend
UCLA where he plans to study medicine.
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Director Robert Moore has scheduled
two weeks of rehearsals starting May 2
for Neil Simon's "The Cheap Detective,"
Rastar production for Columbia Pictures
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starring
Peter Falk.
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Rastar's "The Goodbye Girl" began a
month-long shooting schedule in New York
Tuesday (5) after completing six weeks of
filming at MGM Studios. The first New
York sequence was a comedy scene with
Marsha Mason and the Subaru display at
the Auto Expo Show. Other locations will
be Shubert Alley, Showcase Studios, Open
Space Theatre, Metropole Cafe and the
Roosevelt Island tram. The Warner Bros,
presentation is from Neil Simon's original
screenplay.
Dracula Society Selects
Annual Award Winners
HOLLYWOOD—Ida
Lupino and Christopher
Lee are cinema winners of the 15th
annual Radcliffe awards presented by the
Count Dracula Society of Los Angeles. Dr.
Donald A. Reed, president of the society,
said that the awards will be presented at a
gala dinner at the University Hilton, University
of Southern California, Saturday
evening (30), with 500 members and friends
expected to attend.
The society, a non-profit association devoted
to the serious study of horror films
and Gothic literature,' also will present
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awards to Jay Robinson and Grimsley, a
local TV star, for television achievements;
to Bob Cremer, for "Lugosi: the Man Behind
the Cape," Dr. D. P. Varma, for
editing "The Castle of Otranto," and Dr.
Stephen Kaplan, literature. Presenters will
include Ray Bradbury, Rouben Mamoulian,
Gayna Shireen, Forrest Ackerman, Walt
Daugherty, Frank R. Saletri, William Marshall,
George Pal, Rich Correll, Kris Vosburgh
and Edward Ansara.
Variety 25 Holds First
Annual Tennis Tourney
LOS ANGELES—The first
annual Variety
Club of Southern California Tent 25
tennis tournament, held at the Ambassador
Tennis and Health Club was highlighted
by a celebrity match between the Los Angeles
Rams' Bob Klein and John Cappelletti
vs. ABC newsman Jerry Dunphy and critic)
Regis Philbin. Klein and Cappelletti won;
the match 6-2, 6-3. The match was con
trolled by noted umpire Sarg Burns, presi
dent of the Southern California Tennis Um
pires Ass'n.
Other winners were Bob McKay and
Suzanne Sproul in Class A, Tim Mclntyn;
and Alison Winston in Class B and Man
Michaelson and Eileen Cohen in Class C
Announcements of the winners were mad
by Murray Propper, president of the asso
ciation which is dedicated to helping handi
capped and underprivileged children.
The first annual tournament attracte
over 80 players and was followed by
buffet-dinner at the Ambassador Hote
Awards and door prizes were distributed. I
Chairman of the event was David Weij
man, vice-president. Variety Club Tent 21
Members of the Variety Boys Club, undij
the direction of Louis Diaz, served as b&
boys.
New LA Tiffany to Show
'Kiss Me Kate' in 3-D
LOS ANGELES—"Kiss Me Kate," I
1953 MGM musical, will be shown in 1
original 3-D version during a limited ei
gagement here at the new Tiffany Theat:,
Operated by Tom Cooper, the Tiffany is tt
only theatre in the U.S. equipped with le
two-projector system required to show ie
original process 3-D films, according o
United Artists Classics, the company !
leasing "Kiss Me Kate."
The film, based on a Cole Porter hit til
had a long Broadway run, stars Kath'D
Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Boby
Van, Bob Fosse and Carol Haney.
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Cin-Art Has Split Policy
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—The Cin-Art •:)»-
tures an innovative programing patm
with a new policy of "Something or
Everybody." The house, located at 02
Court St., has 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. screenigs
of "your favorite ladies of the peno
screen," with 6 p.m. to midnight showlgs
of "big hits featuring incredible dudes fkni
all male cast films." Senior citizens areji
mitted at half price.
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