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MOVIES - May 22, 1992

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Telling It Like It Is: In London, Gregory Peck presented two young British screenwriters with $20,000 scholarships, which will bring them to California for a year, then told them: “If you long to make superior films, it could be a disheartening experience.” Ann Ogidi and James Wyllie were the first recipients of scholarships provided by the Carl and Eve Foreman Foundation and will spend a year at Cal State Long Beach. But Peck warned them that major Hollywood studios are “there to grind out product and make a profit. They try not to deal with anything hard to understand or controversial.”

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