HOLLYWOOD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200400026-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: December 29, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Hollywood, Dec. 28-Novel-
1st-screenwriter Ernest Tidy-
man, with projected grosses
"of $12,000,000 and $30,000,000 on
,his first two films ("Shaft" and
"The French Connection," ' re-
spectively), probably will have six
;films in production during 1972.
The impact of Tidyman's sud
den emergence as a big money
writer here in Hollywood is re-
flected in the start of production
next month in New York of his,
second "Shaft" film for MGM,
tentatively titled "Shaft's Triple-
Cross," It will be directed by
Gordon Parks, who directed the
,first "Shaft."
Additionally, Tidyman's origi
iial screenplay for "The Donald
Lang Story" has three studios
negotiating with Shelley Davis.
gild Shelley Brodsky whose NOW
Productions, owns the 'property.
Film will project an early spring
start on Chicago locations.
. . .
Television is also getting on
the Tidyman bandwagon, with
ABC-TV setting "Paternity Suit,"
a Tidyman original as Ernest
Tidyman Productions' first film-
for-TV project. The writer will
also produce this contemporary
comedy-love story about a young
model anxious to have a baby by
her suitor, but not to marry him.
The project is slated for San
Francisco location filming this
spring, with an unknown actress
to be set for the lead, surrounded
by top stars.
Additionally, his company has
Just acquired film rights to "The
,Hope Dancer," novel of behind-
the scenes intrigue and sudden
'death in the top-secret United
States security network. Written
by former CIA agent- (for 15
years) Victor Marchetti, it was
published by Gro-sett & Dunlap.
The story has similar elements as
Tidyman's "French,-,Connection"
hit, and several stuilios want
Tidyman to write an (l produce the
project for .them through his com-
pany..
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