American Film, Volume VIII, Number 3
Subtitle: December 1982
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: December 1982
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1982
Description: Cover photo of Paul Newman by Daniel Simon. $2.00 cover price.
Table of contents: label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Behind the Scenes: My Brilliant Would-Be Career
pagenum: 8
title: Could a mild-mannered college professor have found happiness and success as co-host of "Sneak Previews" with Rex Reed?; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 12; title: Brooke Shields and others give testify before Congress.
label: Lights, Camera, Testimony; title: Rita Mae Brown's ''Slumber Party Massacre''
label: Cheap Drills; label: The Amazing Colossal Men
pagenum: 14
title: Animation special effects production company Colossal Pictures; title: The book "The Execution of Charles Horman" by Thomas Hauser and the lawsuit against its film adaptation, "Missing."
label: Missing the Target; label: VideoFile; label: The New English Channel
pagenum: 17
title: Will Four's New Wave of Programming Make a Splash?; label: Scanlines
pagenum: 19; title: Tip Top! With Suzy Prudden
label: Kiddie Kalisthenics; title: HBO and Showtime attempt to adapt SCTV
label: Second City Gets Wired; title: Best-sellers on home video
label: Tops in Tapes; title: As cable and home video take off, the industry becomes lost trying to gauge the TV ratings
label: Is Anybody Watching?; label: Dialogue on Film: Martin Sheen
pagenum: 20
title: Filmmaker Emile de Antonio talks with the actor about "Gandhi," "Apocalypse Now," plus their new film about the Berrigan brothers.; label: Sidney Lumet: The Reluctant Auteur
pagenum: 30
title: "Are you now or have you ever been an auter?" Lumet takes the Fifth, but "The Verdict" may prove him guilty.; label: It's in the Cards
pagenum: 37
title: Lobby cards once graced the walls of every theater foyer. Now they have gone the way of newsreels and short subjects, but have become the hottest new item in the collector's market.; label: The Idolmakers
pagenum: 48
title: They make pilgrimages to Marilyn Monroe's grave; they collect relics from James Dean's death car. They are the true believers who worship at the altar of cinema.; label: Collector's Choice: The Couture Theory
pagenum: 57
title: A fashionable guide to clothes on videocassette.; label: Gorgo, Warhol, Rocky and Me
pagenum: 64
title: Growing up at the movies, where there was more action in the seats than on the screen.; label: Books; label: The Crisis That Won't Quit
pagenum: 70
title: Editors struggle to keep the film book from becoming a luxury item - with careful marketing, grains and fewer titles.; label: But Folks, Seriously...
pagenum: 72
title: Reviews of "Where Have I Been?" by Sid Caesar and Bill Davidson, and "Jerry Lewis in Person" by Lewis and and Herb Gluck.; label: American Film Classified Ads
pagenum: 76; label: December Calendar for AFI Members
pagenum: 78; label: Trailers
pagenum: 80
title: Tootsie, 48 Hours, Sophie's Choice, Best Friends, Gandhi, Frances; label: NOTABLE ADVERTISEMENTS; label: Journey to Adventure
pagenum: 15
title: Mail-order videos; label: My Dinner with Andre
pagenum: 24
title: 1/3 page videocassette ad; label: The Hobbit
pagenum: 40
title: Centerfold Sony videocassette ad; label: The Will Rogers Institute
pagenum: 45; label: Kodak
pagenum: 46
title: 2-page Clint Eastwood ad; title: Inner-back-cover videocassette ad
label: Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip