Robert Evans

...Cow." Personal connections also mattered. Chappellet's love interest was played by Camilla Sparv, ex-wife of Paramount studio boss Robert Evans. Gregson's wife at the time, Natalie Wood, worked as an assistant behind the scenes. (Redford...

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...from Bosnia" angle, picks a painting the reminds her of the drab, depressing beauty of Europe. I sure wish Jack Nicholson or Robert Evans (or the two of them together!) had stumbled onto the lawn of the Getty Museum with a harem of...

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...director of Rosemary's Baby, among other films. He's seen chumming around Los Angeles with Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, and Robert Evans-all legendary leg-over men. He marries Sharon Tate, a beautiful model and actress, and they...

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..."Bonnie and Clyde." If it wasn't for Warren Beatty's sheer persistence, the studio would've buried it. When Bluhdorn brought Robert Evans in as a production exec in the late '60s, he told him, "The Paramount [dolt] in charge now is 90 years...

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...James Bond, Jane Fonda. Mad Men, Jerry Goldsmith, John Huston, Kim Cattrall, Los Angeles, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Sylbert, Robert Evans, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, The Ghost, Tony Blair, Vertigo, Warren Beatty, Entertainment News What's...

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...director are Nos. 2 and 3). Bregman told some amusing stories about the business, including the time he bullied Paramount's Robert Evans, who refused to have Bregman-managed Al Pacino in "The Godfather." HIFF director of programming David...

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...to discourage his snooping. In a 2007 making-of documentary included on the DVD, Polanski says he resisted Nicholson's and producer Robert Evans' demand he play the part because Polanski didn't want to cut his long hair. Polanski also says...

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...the distraught Polanski quit the United States and only returned three years later after being persuaded by producer Robert Evans and Nicholson to make Chinatown. It's debatable whether he ever fully recovered from Tate's murder, and...

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...of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it. Warren Beatty and Robert Evans were there, too, and you could feel the sense of injustice from these people who are part of...

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...for a mere $12,500, rising to $50,000 if the novel was filmed. But maybe - if we're to credit Paramount's head of production Robert Evans - Paramount very nearly didn't acquire it. There was a bidding war: they were "one day away from Burt...

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