Hollywood Studio Magazine (November 1969)

by Betty Hooten A Gulf + Western Company Pictured is the entire Publicity Department at a party for Lou Mindling, Licensing and Merchandising Director. Left to right are Bob Goodfried, Jean Gibson, Joel Rose, Ed Fisher, Debbie Weiner, Sandy Hetlund, Peggy Wheeler, Mindling, Carol Pokuta, Phil Gersdorf Betty Hooten, Art Wilde and Ted Ashton. Terry Wooley, still photographer in Publicity, took the picture. Ali MacGraw and Robert Evans, Vice President In Charge of Worldwide Production, attending celebrity screening and party of Paramount Pictures’ “THE STERILE CUCKOO,” produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula, at the Directors Guild Theatre (9/30169). There was quite an impressive turn out for the preview of Paramount’s “The Sterile Cuckoo” at the Director’s Guild. An Alan J. Pakula Production, “The Sterile Cuckoo” stars Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton and Tim Mclntire, and marks the film debut of Burton. Music for the film was scored by Fred Karlin, (the song “Come Saturday Morning” was performed by The Sandpipers) and songs from the film were played during the party following the screening. Filmed by Pakula on locations at an upstate New York college campus, “The Sterile Cuckoo” is a bitter-sweet and frequently funny story of the loneliness of young people. Miss Minnelli is cast as “Pookie”, a strange, lonely and lost freshman student. The consensus of the gathered World press and celebrities is “The Sterile Cuckoo” will make Liza Minnelli a star. * * * Paramount Pictures had two films, “Medium Cool” and “Adalen 31” represented at the San Francisco International Film Festival which was held October 22 through November 2. Haskell Wexler and Bo Widerberg, respective directors of the two films both attended the screenings of their films in San Francisco. Wexler directed “Medium Cool” from Page 12 his own screenplay and co-produced the film with Tully Friedman. The Technicolor film stars Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill and Harold Blankenship. “Adalen 31”, a Swedish film was recently acclaimed at the seventh annual New York Film Festival in Lincoln Center. The film winner of the Grand Jury Prize in 1969 at Cannes, “Adalen 31” recounts a tragic labor strike which occurred in Sweden in 1931 and caused a major political and social upheaval. Widerberg wrote the screenplay for the film, which stars Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund, Marie DeGeer and Anita Bjork. The AB Svensk Filmindustri Production was photographed in Technicolor and Techniscope. Good wishes and much happiness to newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. John Rubsam. Mrs. Rubsam, the former Kathleen Crowley, is co-star of Paramount’s “Downhill Racer” and “The Lawyer”. The groom is the well-known Beverly Hills and New York retail clothier of Gentlemen’s Resale West, Inc. The couple were married September 27 at The Church of the Good Shepherd with a reception following at The Garden Room of the Bel-Air Hotel. The wedding was one of the most beautiful we’ve seen in a long time. Mr. and Mrs. Rubsam will honeymoon on their yacht for a month before returning to resume their respective careers. * * * Speaking of newlyweds (newlyweds!! They’ve been married a year), Jackie and Howard Gross drove all the way from Toronto, Canada to visit Jackie’s sister, Debbie Weiner here. Debbie, playing the gracious host and wanting them to make the most of their time in Hollywood, took them to the “swinging” Silver Dollar Saloon. The girls did well at gambling, but Howard obviously lost his shirt. Because of the cramped quarters of Debbie’s single apartment, the Grosses bedded down in sleeping bags. (Oh! My achin’ back).