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Peter Bart: My 1975 New Year’s Resolution Was To Quit Hollywood – And Here’s Why
"It was a great time to be around – and not to be."
Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg were redefining box office while their fraternity preferred to talk about modestly budgeted movies like Taxi Driver or Dog Day Afternoon. Paramount, where I was employed, had pulled together an elite fraternity of directors including Coppola, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger, Robert Altman and Hal Ashby that was the envy of other studios. I spoke to Coppola and his producer, Gray Frederickson, because our personal relationship dated back to pre-production of 1972’s The Godfather.
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