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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, August 29,1984

IMBC hopes first theatrical movie, 'Emerald/ proves box-office gem

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service HOLLYWOOD - “We’re calling this a learning experience,” said John Agoglia, executive vice president of NBC Productions, referring to the network's initial toe in the sometimes icy water of theatrical films. NBC recently announced that it was embarking on its first theatrical movie, in Paris. “Emerald,” a $6 million thriller set during World War 11, will be

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REDFORD’S HERO NEW YORK (AP) Robert Redford, who stars in the movie, ‘The Natural,’ in which he plays a baseball slugger, says Hall of Famer Ted Williams was his hero as a boy. In the movie, in which Redford shows amazing baseball form, he tried to copy Williams’ stance. “The first time I was in New York, it must have been about 1957,1 found out the Boston Red Sox were playing the Yankees in Yankee Stadium,” Redford recalled. “I went to the ballpark and got a seat in the bleachers. But Ted wasn’t in the lineup. Then he came up to pinch-hit in the ninth inning. I’ll be darned if he didn’t hit a homer which landed right in back of me.” Redford concluded: “I had had some good days myself but that had to be my biggest thrill in sports.”

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produced by Martin Starger, directed by Jonathan Sanger and distributed by MGM-UA. Ed Harris, who had the role of John Glenn in “The Right Stuff,” will play the movie’s protagonist, an American double agent in Germanoccupied Paris just prior to the invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. The cast will also include Max von Sydow, Horst Buchholz and Helmut Berger. “We’ll be learning the

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business aspects of theatrical film making,” said Agoglia who is also head of business affairs. “How to minimize risk, how to deal with all the necessary contracts. Deal-making for theatrical films is different from television. And we’ll be building relationships.” Building relationships will come in handy if NBC decides to follow the example of ABC and CBS. Both of the other networks have experimented more than

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