Coppola previews his new film and puts his studio on the line
Our story so far: daredevil film maker (Apocalypse Now, the Godfather films) and presumptive bankrupt Francis Ford Coppola had just fired himself out of a cannon wearing a fine black beard and a jaunty smile but perhaps (there was a lot of public relations smoke) no leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial...