Hollywood Goes Big-Budget Bananas

January, 1978

Hollywood Goes Big-Budget Bananashow the studios' love affair with the multimillion-dollar movie is putting your neighborhood bijou on the endangered-species listYoung Chicago film critic to Joseph E. Levine, producer of "A Bridge Too Far": "Why do you waste $26,000,000 on a film like that when you could make 26 artistic films for $1,000,000 each--like 'Rocky'?"Joseph E. Levine to young Chicago film critic: "Why don't you shit in your hat and pull it over your ears? 'Roc...