American Film, Volume VIII, Number 6
Subtitle: April 1983
Series: Magazine of the Film and Television Arts
Publisher: American Film Institute
Published: April 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Magazine
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1983
Other titles: Volume 8, Number 6
Description: Dustin Hoffman cover photo by Greg Gorman. $2.00 cover price.
Table of contents: label: Contents
pagenum: 3; label: The Editing Room
pagenum: 5
title: The Oscar race.; label: Letters
pagenum: 6; label: Flashback: Harry Cohn Heads for England
pagenum: 8
title: When Columbia Pictures tries to make "The Lady in Waiting," its first film in England in 1933, the biggest problem proved to be the language barrier.; label: Newsreel
pagenum: 13
title: Short news stories.; title: Washington politicians name their favorite films.
label: Pols' Pix; title: Mike Farrell producers "Citizen," about the life and death of Allard Lowenstein.
label: MASH Rx for El Salvadore; title: Big business begins running commercials in movie theaters.
label: Trailer with a Hitch; title: Universal Studios Florida makes plans to open.
label: Universal's Gator Aid; title: Paul Newman Salad Dressing, Jimmy Dean Sausages and other celebrity foods.
label: The Foodstuffs That Dreams Are Made Of; label: VideoFile: The Perils of Pay-Per-View
pagenum: 17
title: Can movies premiere at home without losing box-office dollars?; label: Scanlines
pagenum: 19
title: Short news stories.; title: Stereo TV programming.
label: Sound's Good; title: Holding public office when cable came to town.
label: Lobby or Leave Me; label: Collector's Choice: Easter Parade
pagenum: 21
title: Playwright Christopher Durang fills his basket with ten films resurrected (or not) on cassette.; label: Dialogue on Film: Dustin Hoffman
pagenum: 26
title: The star of "Tootsie" explains his passion for perfection, how he develops his roles, and why movies are never as good as they could be.; label: The Wild Ones
pagenum: 30
title: Movies for minors are major business. Hollywood is responding to teens' demographic demagoguery with updated images of adolescence that keep the kids coming back for more.; label: Father Francis [Ford Coppola] in Boys Town; label: S.E. Hinton Loves Matt Dillon; label: We Love Glenda So Much
pagenum: 36
title: Her fans would acknowledge no limits to their passion. A short story.; label: The New Male Melodrama
pagenum: 42
title: Today's sensitive heroes cook, clean, and take care of junior while the women are out of the picture.; label: An Actor and a Gentleman
pagenum: 48
title: Louis Gossett, Jr. has had breakthroughs before. Now, with an Oscar nomination, he's wondering whether this one's for real.; label: Public Television's Prime-Time Politics
pagenum: 53
title: Independents and public television are at it again. Beyond this skirmish, the larger battle over whom the system serves and how it serves them.; label: TV Lab: The End of an Experiment?
pagenum: 55; label: Books
pagenum: 58
title: "Profane Mythology: The Savage Mind of the Cinema" and "The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema" reviewed by Michael Wood. "Anthony Mann," "Luis Bunuel," "Jean- Luc Godard," and "George Cukor," reviewed by Andrew Sarris.; label: Calendar for AFI Members
pagenum: 66; label: Trailers
pagenum: 78
title: Portrait of a Woman Nude, Eddie Macon's Run, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Flashdance, and Man, Woman and Child; label: From the Director
pagenum: 80
title: The Blockbuster Syndrome; label: NOTABLE ADVERTISEMENTS; label: Alfa Romeo GTV-6
pagenum: 2; label: RCA Columbia Video Cassettes
pagenum: 4
title: "Take Home An Oscar" featuring Cat Ballou, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, You Light Up My Life, Born Free, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Harlan County USA, Gerald McBoing-Boing, A Man for All Seasons, Midnight Express, California Suite, The Guns of Navarone, Z, Cactus Flower, Born Yesterday, TGIF, Funny Girl, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Way We Were, Tess, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Hellstrom Chronicle; label: RCA
pagenum: 15
title: Selectavision Video Monitor, 2 pages; label: Warner Home Video
pagenum: 29
title: "Haunted Home Video" featuring "Creepshow," with descriptions for "Eyes of a Stranger," "Rabid," "Sisters," "The Hand," "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Tales of Terror" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."; label: Franklin Mint
pagenum: 40
title: The Greatest Recordings of The Big Band Era, 2 pages; label: Littlebrown Publishing
pagenum: 61
title: The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spato; label: American Film
pagenum: 65
title: The John Huston Tribute Book; label: Movie Entertainment Book Club
pagenum: 79
title: Amazing 3-D by Hal Morgan and Dan Symmes; title: The Incubus, Heartaches, What's Up Tiger Lily, Rodan & If You Could See What I Hear, inner back-cover
label: Vestron Video