Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 79, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 2, 1974 Page: 3 of 12
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Stanley Kramer once told film making. Happily, the American • Brodway play, selling bits and financier Max Pavlesky $50,000.
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He financed Badlands ‛lke put up $9,000 and Los Angeles • brief role as a favor. and two cameras and scorched crew of four . It was down to two all the details that I didn’t have
students, “If you want to break Film Institute in 1969 was pieces to investors. His father, fa 1972 Malick had enough edsveraldtimes.anzifckndera thf socalneffectsman film whenihe finished the 14-week time for. When we coud no
into the movie business, don’t beginning its program of an Oklahoma oil chief official, money to start filming in a Hollywood special effects students and skin-flick makers “My wife Jill held the picture un nge affordacaterer,shegot
start at the bottom and work fellowships for budding film contributed 17,000, his mother- Colorado with Martin Sheen as man to stage a house fire The didnet work out Malick fired tMY" Malick theP atgre UP at5am andmad efa ntastic
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J Today an astonishing number “We learned a little theory,
2 of young film makers are doing especially when directors came
5 just that. Some of them have to visit, but mostly it was a
> come to grief, spending $200,000 matter of learning how to run
<or more on movies that will machines-cameras, movielas,
< never be seen by the public. A sound, etc. The training was
few, like Terence Malick, make great. I would have been lost
it. without it"
3: Malick, 30, wrote, directed Malick made a 15-minute film
3: and produced “Badlands," there and moonlighted as a
3 which won rave reviews at last script doctor on such movies as
f year’s New York Film Festival “Drive, He Said" and “Dirty
jand is being released by Harry.” He earned enough to
3 Warner Brothers. Five years send his wife Jill through law
33 ago he was teaching philosophy school and set asid seed money
at M.I.T. for his first feature film. He
“I was teaching while I was began writing a script based on
doing my doctoral work for the murderous rampage of
Oxford, where I had spent a Charles Starkweather in the
Xcouple of years,” recalled the Midwest.
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information, listing Fred Fin’s "Our legal counsel said that
height as three centimeters and Mazanek didn’t really have a
weight as 30 centigrams. The case, but we settled the claim
fish's age of 6 months was because of the adverse publici-
included and, as beneficiary, he ty we’d get if he tried to go to
wrote in "Stanley J. Mazanek - court,” he said. “The way
" insurance. claim.
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I general trends in food prices for available for The Hague, the
i a particular city. 14th city.
Published by the depart- The sirloin price for Washing-
ment’s Foreign Agricultural ton, P.C., was $2.29 per pound,
Service, the report said the down from $2.42 in January, the
March survey showed price .report said. As usual, Tokyo
declines were most common for shoppers paid the, most: $10.31
gruit, vegetables, pork and per pound, actually a decline of
deggs. But increases outnumbe- 36 cents from January. The
red declines for bread, cheese median for the 14 capitals was
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As a joke, Mazanek decided relations spokesman for Globe
to sign up his 60-cent guppy, Life, explained why the
Fred Fin Mazanek, for the company paid Mazanek his
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Last year, while a student at as the Globe Life representa-
the University of Arizona in tive was leaving, Mazanek
Tucson, Mazanek received a consented to the $650.
mail offer from Globe Life & “I haven’t done anything
Accident Insurance Co. of illegal,” he said. “The company
Oklahoma City for a $5,000 life didn’t specify that the insured
insurance policy. The offer said had to be human and I filled out
the policy would run for six every blank with information
months and the premium would that couldn’t possibly relate to a
cost only $1, a special student real person.”
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roaurndrcedabuldins.Malck, a Normally a young film maker
, very good teacher, so I dropped major film companies, hoping
. it ail to come out here. Why? they would have the vision to
: I’m not sure. Except that I back him. Malick chose another
wanted to make a living from route.
something I was enthusiastic “I didn’t try to get studio
for.” backing and I didn’t try to get
He had never been a movie stars," he remarked. “I would
buff, but he thought he might have lost conrol if I had.”
Pet Owner Collects ’650
On Guppy Fish’s Death
PHOENIX, Ariz. AP - Stan “We sat there and argued like
Mazanek was $650 richer today a couple of drunk horse
thanks to the direct mail traders,” Mazanek said,
practices of an Oklahoma He brought his demand down
insurance company and his to $1,000 and the insurance man
recently deceased guppy fish, said $650 was as high as he
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To Mazanek s surprise, he quote junk mail unquote, we
. soon received a formal policy knew there would be bad
insuring the life of Fred Fin publicity.”
Mazanek.
In December, when Fred Fin Another company spokesman
died of natural causes, Maza- said Fred Fin Mazanek’s policy
• nek decided, still as a joke, to was one of 320,000 identical
write Globe Life that the policies to be processed during
insured had died within the last year’s direct mail cam-
'policy's six-month span and, as paign.
beneficiary, the firm owed him MacDonald added, “These
$5.ooo mistakes will happen when you
The company sent a repre- have people doing the same
sentative to Tucson at once to routine job day after day. A
see if Mazanek was serious, bunch of heads have rolled
Mazanek decided he was since. We’re checking applica-
serious and informed the tions a little closer now.”
representative that Globe Life Mazanek, who now lives here,
had insured a life for $5,000 and said, "I’ve spent a little of the
that life had expired before the money, bought two more
policy. So, he reasoned, the guppies and took my wife out
firm owed him $5,000. for a fish dinner.”
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: Rise in World Capitals
WASHING! IN AP - Sirloin “Japanese broiler prices
; steak prices climbed in most were up, reportedly as a result
world capitals between- of increasing feed and transpor-
mid-January and early March, tation costs,” the report said,
but food costs generally in 14 "Tomato prices on 'Japan
; cities sampled by U.S. officials jumped 14 per cent from
; showed signs of declining, the January, reflecting the increa-
; Agriculture Department said sed cost of plastic film and
today. heating fuel for hothouses."
The figures are collected Sirloin steak, one of the
irregularly by U.S. agricultural indicators, rose in price from
i attaches stationed abroad and January to March in eight of the
; are not considered a scientific capitals, dropped in four and
; sample for an entire country, held steady in Buenos Aires at
; They do,' however, indicate 69 cents per pound. None was
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_ counted for many of the lower lower in March.
prices, and a reversal of the “Supplies of pork were
recent price uptrend cannot be reprted to be larger in many
verified," the report said. Also, markets, and indications are
it said, there were “individual that beef at the retail level may
examples” of higher prices for also become more plentiful in
some foods because of energy the next few months," the
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Morehart, John. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 79, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 2, 1974, newspaper, April 2, 1974; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1500322/m1/3/: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.