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Could Nepotism be Behind Friedkin’s Latest Assigment

BY: Brad Brevet | February 9th 2004 at 5:26 AM

New York Times reported that when Variety published the news last week that the veteran director William Friedkin was attached to a new movie at Paramount Pictures, eyebrows went up in Hollywood. Not just because it is rare in the age-obsessed movie industry for a 69-year-old director to score a major studio assignment, but also because Mr. Friedkin would be making yet another movie at the studio where his wife, Sherry Lansing, is the chairwoman.

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