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Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
Gorillas In The Mist poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Michael Apted
Produced by
Arne Glimcher
 Terence A. Clegg
Screenplay by
Anna Hamilton Phelan
Story by
Anna Hamilton Phelan
 Tab Murphy
Based on
the work by
Dian Fossey
and the article by
 Harold T.P. Hayes
Starring
Sigourney Weaver
Bryan Brown
Music by
Maurice Jarre
Cinematography
John Seale
Editing by
Stuart Baird
Distributed by
Universal Studios
(USA/Canada)
Warner Bros.
(International)
Release date(s)
September 23, 1988

Running time
129 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$12 million
Box office
$61,149,479
Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey. It tells the true-life story of her work in Rwanda with Mountain Gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards.


Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Reception 5.1 Critical reception
5.2 Box office
5.3 Awards
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
A Kentucky woman named Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is inspired by the anthropologist Louis Leakey (Ian Cuthbertson) to devote her life to the study of primates. To this end, she writes ceaselessly to him for a job cataloguing and studying the rare mountain gorillas of Africa. With some effort, she manages to convince Leakey of her conviction and devotion to the cause at hand after personally approaching him following a lecture on his part in 1966. Thereafter, Fossey embarks into the Congo, where Leakey and his foundation equip her with the necessary equipment and housing to achieve personal contact with the gorillas, and introduce her to a local animal tracker, Sembagare (John Omirah Miluwi), to assist her in her endeavors. Settling deep in the jungle, Fossey and Sembagare manage to locate a troop of gorillas, but they are ultimately displaced by the events of an ongoing civil war after being forcibly evicted from their research site by Congolese soldiers, who accuse Fossey of being a foreign spy and agitator.
Initially, Fossey sees no other option but to leave the continent and return to the United States. However, after Sembagare and her temporary host Rosamond Carr (Julie Harris) motivate her to stay, she decides to base her research efforts in the jungles of neighboring Rwanda, which Dian presumes will be safe from outside incursions. However, what Fossey fails to foresee are the rampant problems of poaching and corruption taking place therein, which become apparent when she discovers several traps in the vicinity of her new base at Karisoke. Nevertheless, Fossey and her colleagues make several key headways with the gorillas, taking account of the gorilla's communication and social groups. In so doing, her work impresses Leakey and gains broader international attention.
National Geographic, who fund her efforts, takes an increasingly marked interest in her work and dispatches photographer Bob Campbell (Bryan Brown) to highlight her research. Fossey, initially unreceptive towards the outsider Campbell, grows increasingly attached to him after several photo sessions with the gorillas, and the two eventually become lovers, in spite of Campbell's marriage. Campbell proposes to divorce his wife and marry her but insists that she would have to spend time away from Karisoke and her gorillas, leading her to call off the tryst and ending their relationship. During this time, Fossey also becomes close to a gorilla named Digit, forming an emotional bond with him, and attempts to prevent the export of other gorillas by the trader Van Vecten (Constantin Alexandrov).
Increasingly appalled by the poaching of the gorillas for their skins, hands and heads, Fossey complains to the Rwandan government, which dismisses her by claiming that poaching is the only means by which some of the Rwandan natives can themselves survive. However, a government minister (Waigwa Wachira) promises to equip her with a three-man anti-poaching squad and pay for their salaries. Ultimately, Fossey's frustration reaches a climax when Digit is killed and beheaded by poachers, leading her to ever-more extreme actions to save the gorillas from illegal poaching and likely extinction. To this end, she forms and leads numerous anti-poaching patrols, burning down the poachers' villages and even staging a mock execution of one of the offenders, serving to alienate some of her research assistants and gaining her various enemies. Sembagare expresses concern at her open opposition to the emergent industry of gorilla tourism, but Fossey nonchalantly dismisses his worries by stating that she already has an extended travel visa and increasing financial support for her research. However, on December 27, 1985, Dian Fossey is brutally murdered in the bedroom of her cabin by an unseen assailant. Thereafter, at a funeral attended by Sembagare, Carr and others, she is buried in the same cemetery where Digit and other gorillas had been laid to rest. Afterwards, Sembagare symbolically links the graves of Fossey and Digit together with stones as a sign that their souls rest in peace together.
A pre-credits sequence indicates her actions to help save the gorillas paid off greatly and the species was saved from extinction as a result. According to the ending, Dian Fossey's death remains a mystery.
Cast[edit]
Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey
Bryan Brown as Bob Campbell
Julie Harris as Roz Carr
John Omirah Miluwi as Sembagare
Ian Cuthbertson as Dr. Louis Leakey
Constantin Alexandrov as Van Vecten
Waigwa Wachira as Mukara
Iain Glen as Brendan
David Lansbury as Larry
Maggie O'Neill as Kim
Konga Mbandu as Rushemba
Michael J. Reynolds as Howard Dowd
Gordon Masten as Photographer
Peter Nduati as Batwa chief
Helen Fraser as Mme. Van Vecten
John Alexander as Mime Artist
Peter Elliott as Mime Artist
Denise Cheshire as Mime Artist
Antonio Hoyos as Mime Artist
Jody St. Michael as Mime Artist
David Maddock as himself
Production[edit]
The screenplay was adapted by Anna Hamilton Phelan from articles by Alex Shoumatoff and Harold T. P. Hayes and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre. The movie was directed by Michael Apted and the cinematography was by John Seale.
Soundtrack[edit]
Peggy Lee – "September in the Rain" (Written by Harry Warren & Al Dubin)
Peggy Lee – "It's a Good Day" (Written by Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour)
Peggy Lee – "Sugar" (Written by Maceo Pinkard & Sidney D. Mitchell & Edna Alexander)
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received generally good reviews from critics, with many praising both Weaver's performance and the technical accomplishments of the movie while some were frustrated by the lack of depth in Fossey's on-screen characterisation.
"At last, [Weaver] may have found a part cut to her scale."[1] quipped Hal Hanson of The Washington Post. "It's a great role for her to pour herself into, and she doesn't skimp."
However he had his misgivings about the restrictions placed on Fossey's character:
"The chief problem with Gorillas in the Mist is that it banalizes its heroine; it turns her into one of us. And by all accounts Fossey was anything but ordinary." He also accused the filmmakers of toning down Fossey's unstable mental state: "Fossey was more than merely eccentric...The movie hints at these aspects of her character but tries to soften them;...the filmmakers have done more than sanitize Fossey's life, they've deprived it of any meaning."
He conceded that "Gorillas in the Mist isn't a terrible film, but it is a frustrating one."
While Roger Ebert was also happy with the casting of Weaver as Fossey ("[She] makes her [Fossey] passionate and private and has an exquisite tenderness and tact in her delicate scenes with wild animals. It is impossible to imagine a more appropriate choice for the role."[2]), he felt the character was too distanced from the audience and that her development and motives were unclear. "Gorillas in the Mist tells us what Dian Fossey accomplished and what happened to her, but it doesn't tell us who she was, and at the end that's what we want to know."
However, he was impressed by the scenes with the gorillas and the way live footage of gorillas was seamlessly blended with gorilla costumes: "Everything looked equally real to me, and the delicacy with which director Michael Apted developed the relationships between woman and beast was deeply absorbing. There were moments when I felt a touch of awe. Those moments, which are genuine, make the movie worth seeing." Hanson also agreed that "whenever the cameras turn on the gorillas -- who are the film's true stars -- you feel you're witnessing something truly great."
The film holds an 82% Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews, with an average review of 6.8/10.[3]
Box office[edit]
US gross domestic takings: US$24,720,479
Other international takings: $36,429,000
Gross worldwide takings: $61,149,479
Awards[edit]
Gorillas in the Mist was nominated for 5 Oscars at the 61st Academy Awards in 1988 (ultimately winning none):[4]
Best Actress in a Leading Role (Sigourney Weaver)
Best Film Editing (Stuart Baird)
Best Music, Original Score (Maurice Jarre)
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Anna Hamilton Phelan (screenplay/story) and Tab Murphy (story))
Best Sound (Andy Nelson, Brian Saunders and Peter Handford)
The film won two awards at the 46th Golden Globe Awards in 1989: Maurice Jarre for Best Original Score and Sigourney Weaver for Best Actress. The film was nominated for Best Film.
The film won a Genesis Award for Best Feature Film.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Hanson, Hal (23 September 1988). "Gorillas In The Mist". The Washington Post Company. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
2.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger. "Gorillas In The Mist". Gorillas In The Mist film reviews (Roger Ebert). Retrieved 13 June 2011.
3.Jump up ^ "Gorillas In The Mist- The Story Of Diane Fossey". Gorillas In The Mist movie reviews. Flixster. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
4.Jump up ^ "The 61st Academy Awards (1989) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist at the Internet Movie Database
Gorillas in the Mist at AllRovi
Gorillas in the Mist at Box Office Mojo

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Star! (film)

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For the Canadian celebrity/entertainment channel known as Star! from 1999 to 2010, see E! (Canadian TV channel).

Star!
Star! (film) poster.jpg
Poster by Howard Terpning

Directed by
Robert Wise
Produced by
Saul Chaplin
Written by
William Fairchild
Starring
Julie Andrews
Richard Crenna
Daniel Massey
Music by
Lennie Hayton
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Editing by
William H. Reynolds
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date(s)
July 18, 1968 (United Kingdom)
 October 22, 1968 (United States)
Running time
175 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$14,320,000[1]
Box office
$4,000,000 (USA)[2]
 $10,000,000 (worldwide)[3]
 $4,200,000 (rentals) [4]
Star! is a 1968 American musical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based upon the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.


Contents
  [hide] 1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Musical Numbers
4 Production
5 Theatrical Release
6 Critical reception
7 Awards and nominations 7.1 Academy Awards
7.2 Additional awards
8 Television and Home Video
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
The film opens in 1940, with Lawrence in a screening room watching a documentary film chronicling her life, then flashes back to Clapham in 1915, when she leaves home to join her vaudevillian father in a dilapidated Brixton music hall. Eventually she joins the chorus in André Charlot's West End revue. She reunites with close childhood friend Noël Coward who provides witty commentary on Gertie's actions. Charlot becomes annoyed with Gertie's efforts to stand out, literally, from the chorus. He threatens to fire her, but stage manager Jack Roper intercedes and gets her hired as a general understudy to the leads. She marries Jack, but it's clear she is more inclined to perform onstage than stay home and play wife. While pregnant, she insists on going on for an absent star, and captivates the audience with her own star-making performance of "Burlington Bertie". Charlot and Roeper witness the audiences warm approval, and both realize, Charlot grudgingly and Roeper wistfully, that Gertie belongs on the stage. After their daughter Pamela is born, Gertrude is angered when Roper takes the baby on a pub-crawl, and leaves him. A subsequent courtship with Sir Anthony Spencer, an English nobleman, polishes Gertie's rough edges and transforms her into a lady. Caught at a chic supper club when she is supposed to be on a sick day, she is fired from the Charlot Revue. Squired by Spencer, she becomes the famous darling of society. Coward then convinces Charlot to feature her in his new production, and she is finally recognized as a star. When the revue opens in New York City, she dallies with an actor and a banker, bringing the number of her suitors to three. Gertrude faces financial ruin after spending all her considerable earnings, but ultimately manages to pay back her debtors and retain her glamor. As her career soars, her long-distance relationship with her daughter deteriorates. When Pamela cancels an anticipated holiday with Gertie, she gets roaring drunk and insults a roomful of people at a surprise birthday party thrown by Coward. Among the people insulted at the party is American theatre producer Richard Aldrich. When he returns to escort the hung-over star home, he gives an honest appraisal of her. She is insulted, then intrigued by him, making an unannounced visit to his Cape Playhouse where she proposes to play the lead. They argue at rehearsal. He proposes marriage, she throws him out. Back on Broadway, she has trouble getting a handle on a crucial "The Saga of Jenny" number in Lady in the Dark. Aldrich turns up at a daunting rehearsal where he observes her frustration and takes her, with Coward, out to a nightclub. She protests, then realizes the kind of performance they are watching is the key to her dilemma in the show. Coward pronounces him "a very clever man." After a rousing performance of "Jenny," the film ends with her marriage to Aldrich, eight years before her triumph in The King and I and untimely death from liver cancer at age 54.
Cast[edit]
Julie Andrews ..... Gertrude Lawrence
Daniel Massey ..... Noël Coward
Richard Crenna ..... Richard Aldrich
Michael Craig ..... Sir Anthony Spencer
Robert Reed ..... Charles Fraser
Bruce Forsyth ..... Arthur Lawrence
Beryl Reid ..... Rose
John Collin ..... Jack Roper
Alan Oppenheimer ..... André Charlot
Jock Livingston ..... Alexander Woollcott
Anthony Eisley ..... Ben Mitchell
Jenny Agutter ..... Pamela Roper
Musical Numbers[edit]
1.Overture (Medley: Star!/Someone to Watch Over Me/Jenny/Dear Little Boy/Limehouse Blues)
2.Star!
3.Piccadilly
4.Oh, It's A Lovely War
5.In My Garden Of Joy
6.Forbidden Fruit (not on LP, added to end of CD)
7.N' Everything
8.Burlington Bertie From Bow
9.Parisian Pierrot
10.Limehouse Blues
11.Someone to Watch Over Me
12.Dear Little Boy (Dear Little Girl)
13.Entr'acte - Star! instrumental (not on LP soundtrack or CD)
14.Someday I'll Find You
15.The Physician
16.Do, Do, Do
17.Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?
18.My Ship
19.The Saga of Jenny
20.Main Title - Star! instrumental (not on LP soundtrack or CD)
Star! - Extended Version - (originally released as a 45RPM single, Added to the end of the CD, Used with Director/Producer's approval to underscore Cast of Characters roll for the VHS/Laserdisc release)
Production[edit]
According to extensive production details provided in the DVD release of the film, when Julie Andrews signed to star in The Sound of Music, her contract with Twentieth Century-Fox was a two-picture deal. As Music neared completion, director Robert Wise and producer Saul Chaplin had grown quite fond of Julie, and proposed a follow-up film with her. Wise's story editor Max Lamb suggested a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence and, although Andrews previously had rejected offers to portray the entertainer, she was anxious to work with Wise and Chaplin again and warmed to their story approach.
Once Andrews was on board, Wise bought the rights to both Lawrence's 1945 autobiography A Star Danced and her second husband's 1954 memoir Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. Max Lamb did extensive research, including numerous interviews with people who actually knew Lawrence. It became clear that the interviews provided a more accurate account than the obviously rosy picture in the books, so they became the basis for the screenplay. Wise felt it was important to hire a British screenwriter and decided on William Fairchild. The contrast of the rosy impression of her life in the books vs. the less glamorous real story from the interviews found its way into the script, which initially had an animated Gertie telling the story while the live version played out what (more or less) really happened. Eventually Fairchild suggested Lawrence's story be told in (color) flashback while she watched a (black-and-white) documentary about her life, thus allowing the "real" Gertie in a screening room set to comment on the veracity of the "reel" Gertie in the film within the film.
Fairchild's screenplay renamed, replaced or combined some real people, for dramatic and legal reasons. Two of Lawrence's closest friends, Noël Coward and Beatrice Lillie, were approached regarding the rights to portray them in the film. While Coward was generally supportive, suggesting only small alterations to his character's dialogue, Miss Lillie had a "manager" who demanded that she play herself, in addition to numerous script changes that enlarged her role. Wise then asked Fairchild to find the name of another female performer Gertie had worked with, who was already deceased. Billie Carleton became the composite character that replaced Miss Lillie in the film. When Lawrence reconnects with her wayward father in the film, he is performing in music halls with a mature woman who joins him when he departs for a job in South Africa. In reality Rose was a chorus girl not much older than Lawrence, and she remained in the UK. On screen, Lawrence's first husband Jack Roper is roughly her age, whereas in real life his name was Francis Gordon-Howley and he was twenty years her senior. Her upper-class Guardsman boyfriend, actually Capt. Philip Astley, is identified as Sir Tony Spencer on screen, and the Wall Street financier named Ben Mitchell in the film was really Bert Taylor.
Daniel Massey, who portrayed Noël Coward, was Coward's godson in real life. His performance earned one of the seven Academy Award nominations for the film. In his commentary for the laserdisc and DVD release of the film, Massey reveals he was unhappy with the sound of his voice when he saw the film for the first time. As production wrapped in late 1967 he, at his own request, re-dubbed all of his dialogue before returning home to London. Massey's commentary also recounts a conversation in which Coward addressed his own sexual orientation, which is barely hinted at in the film. Massey quotes Coward saying "I've tried it all, from soup to nuts..." confirming his preference for the latter.
Michael Kidd choreographed the musical sequences. Both he and Andrews have talked about his pushing her beyond what she thought her limits were, particularly for "Burlington Bertie" and "Jenny" - which turned out to be among her best moments on film. Andrews has said that her lasting friendship with Kidd and his dance assistant/wife Shelah, is one of the things she valued most from the experience. Boris Leven was responsible for the outstanding production design and his realistic sets took over nine different stages on the Fox lot. Famous fashion designer Donald Brooks designed 3,040 individual costumes for the film, including a record 125 outfits for Andrews alone. The $750,000 cost of Andrews' extravagant wardrobe was subsidized by Western Costume company, which took ownership after filming. Western rented them out to many subsequent TV and movie productions, (including FUNNY LADY) for over 20 years, then auctioned off most of them, along with hundreds of other famous costumes, at Butterfield & Butterfield's in West Hollywood.
Theatrical Release[edit]
At a time when the popularity of roadshow theatrical releases in general, and musicals in particular, were on the wane, the United States was one of the last countries in which the film was released.[5] When the film was in production, 15,000 people responded to promotional ads placed by 20th Century Fox for advance ticket sales in New York City, but a year later, when the studio followed up by mailing them order forms, only a very small percentage actually bought tickets. Sales were higher for Wednesday Matinees than for Saturday Nights, which indicated that crucial component - young adults - would not be a large part of the picture's audience. The film opened in the US with little advance sale, and good-to-mediocre reviews.
Star! was a commercial disappointment in its initial run, suffering about 20 minutes of studio requested and director-approved cuts, while still in its roadshow engagements. Hoping to recoup some of its estimated $14 million cost, 20th Century Fox executive Richard Zanuck decided do some primitive "market research" (testing 3 titles: "Music For The Lady", "Those Were The Happy Days" and "Star!"), before withdrawing the film in the Spring of 1969. The studio then proceeded to substantially cut and re-market the film under the new title, Those Were The Happy Times. Wise, who did not believe cutting the film would work, declined to be involved in the editing, and asked that the credit "A Robert Wise Film" be removed. Following instructions from Zanuck, William H. Reynolds, the film's original editor, reluctantly but very competently removed scenes and whole sequences, including many of the musical numbers, paring the film's running time from 175 to 120 minutes, (which involved overlapping sound and adding a new shot to bridge some cuts). A very simple new title card was created as well. But when the short retitled version was released in the fall of 1969, the changes left some holes in the plot, and did little to improve box office receipts. The fact that the reissue was to be shown only in 35mm however, coincidentally saved the original camera negative of the film from being altered.
Critical reception[edit]
Renata Adler of the New York Times (who reportedly left the screening at intermission) observed, "A lot of the sets are lovely, Daniel Massey acts beautifully as a kind of warmed Nöel Coward, and the film, which gets richer and better as it goes along, has a nice scene from Private Lives. People who like old-style musicals should get their money's worth. So should people who like Julie Andrews. But people who liked Gertrude Lawrence had better stick with their record collections and memories."[6]
Variety said, "Julie Andrews' portrayal . . . occasionally sags between musical numbers but the cast and team of redoubtable technical contributors have helped to turn out a pleasing tribute to one of the theatre's most admired stars. It gives a fascinating coverage of Lawrence's spectacular rise to showbiz fame, and also a neatly observed background of an epoch now gone."[7]
Time Out London says, "Wise's biopic hardly deserved the rough treatment it received from most critics and audiences, who had been led by the studio's advertising to expect another Sound of Music. This was a far more ambitious project; it backfired, but it backfired with a certain amount of honour. Daniel Massey's mincing portrayal of his godfather Noël Coward wins hands down over all the other impersonations."[8]
TV Guide thought "it deserved a better fate for its enormous score, top-flight production, excellent choreography, and fine acting."[9]
Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "stylish, sharp-edged, and underrated."
Awards and nominations[edit]
Academy Awards[edit]
The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning none:[10][11]
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Massey)
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Color Costume Design
Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott, and Howard Bristol)
Academy Award for Best Score of a Musical Picture, Original or Adaptation
Academy Award for Best Original Song (Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, for "Star!")
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Additional awards[edit]
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Julie Andrews, nominee)
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture (Daniel Massey, winner)
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (Van Heusen and Cahn, nominees for "Star!")
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor (Daniel Massey, nominee)
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical (nominee)
Television and Home Video[edit]
The film debuted on American television in a truncated form, but with its original title. Within a week, it was broadcast in the United Kingdom at its original length, with only the overture and entr'acte eliminated.
One unusual feature about the uncut original version of the film was that, like many released today, it had no opening credits. The only credits seen at the beginning were fictitious - those of the newsreel film within the film - about Gertrude Lawrence, which, after an onscreen overture, is the first thing the audience viewing the film sees. The Twentieth Century-Fox logo was seen only as part of that newsreel, not as part of the actual film, and appeared only in black-and-white. Director Robert Wise had to obtain special permission for putting the main title credits at the end of the film. Initially there were no cast of characters credits which would typically come at the end because (like Fantasia and Apocalypse Now) a special program was to be given to the audience. However at the last minute, a cast of characters roll was added. Because of its late inclusion, it was not scored, a detail that was corrected for the first laserdisc and VHS release after consulting with the producer and director. The music used came from the instrumental bridge and second verse of the title song as originally released on a 45RPM single record.
After the complete version had been unseen and thought lost for nearly 20 years, the rental library Films, Inc. had a new 35mm mono print struck in the late 80s. Numerous screenings on the revival theatre circuit, a two-part article in a movie collector newspaper, and a worldwide letter writing campaign by fans, were followed by an article in Premiere Magazine, an acclaimed debut of the complete version on US cable TV, and a long awaited release on home video. All this attention has earned Star! a reputation as an underrated "lost classic" and a cult favorite.
After being transferred to video with the director's supervision in 1993, a new 35mm print was struck for the 25th Anniversary screening in November at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in Hollywood, CA. This print carried the new Dolby Stereo soundtrack created for the video and laserdisc, which mixed down from the original six channel magnetic soundtrack (Screen Left, Left Center, Center, Right Center, Screen Right and Audience Surround) to four channels (Screen Left, Center, Screen Right, and Audience Surround). The gala screening reunited many cast members with the Director Robert Wise, Producer Saul Chaplin, Choreographer Michael Kidd, Dance Assistant Shelah Hackett Kidd, and Julie Andrews, who was welcomed by a standing ovation from a packed house.
While the initial US video release (on VHS and Laserdisc) featured a transfer of the entire 176 minute film (from the original 65mm camera negative and six-channel magnetic soundtrack), the DVD, mastered from 35mm elements, runs only 173 minutes, because Fox cut the intermission/entr'acte sequence. The laserdisc received a very favorable review from Laserdisc Newsletter, however fans have since written in online reviews and home theatre forums criticizing the DVD for, among other things, loss of the intermission/entr'acte, inaccurate framing, sound mix, and color, (particularly the sepia tint the DVD added to the B&W sequences not being the original filmmakers' choice). Long after laserdiscs stopped being a current format, fans have stated in some forums that they still preferred to watch the laserdisc rather than the DVD.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p255
2.Jump up ^ "Star!, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ "Star!, Box Office Information". IMDb. Retrieved March 4, 2012.
4.Jump up ^ "Big Rental Films of 1969", Variety, 7 January 1970 p 15
5.Jump up ^ http://starfilm.com.ua
6.Jump up ^ New York Times review
7.Jump up ^ Variety review
8.Jump up ^ Time Out London review
9.Jump up ^ TV Guide review
10.Jump up ^ "The 41st Academy Awards (1969) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
11.Jump up ^ "NY Times: Star!". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-27.
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Star! at AllRovi
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Nominations for the 2013 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections are open.
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WikiProject Invention is in the process of recruiting membership and focusing efforts upon invention-related topics in the encyclopedia. Northamerica1000(talk) 10:47, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
User:Emijrp/All human knowledge is in the process of estimating how many notable articles (by type) are needed to cover the sum of all human knowledge. In other words, "How big is Wikipedia's article count likely to grow, and what is still left to be covered?" Please help us forecast the future of this encyclopedia and chart missing coverage by expanding the tables, updating the progress bars and improving references. The most prolific editors will be awarded with the unique AHK barnstar! Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun.
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Alice Munro
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Meta-Wiki – Coordination of all Wikimedia projects.
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Wikibooks – A collection of collaborative non-fiction books.
Wikiquote – A compendium of referenced quotations.
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Wikispecies – A directory of species.
Wikiversity – Where teachers learn, and learners teach.
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