THE BEAT GOES ON
The shadow trailing Allen Klein seems to lengthen every time we turn around. As if altercations with Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and the United States Government weren’t enough, it appears that he’s now at odds with the Douglas Communications Corporation over the handling of Alexandro Jodorowsky’s film El Topo.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Cruisin’ With Klein (Again)
The shadow trailing Allen Klein seems to lengthen every time we turn around. As if altercations with Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and the United States Government weren’t enough, it appears that he’s now at odds with the Douglas Communications Corporation over the handling of Alexandro Jodorowsky’s film El Topo.
November of 1970 found Jodoroswky in New York with a film on his hands which nobody seemed to want. All the major studios had turned El Topo down, not knowing what to make of the Mexican-made film and apparently not displaying enough interest to even try. A last-ditch screening was arranged for Alan Douglas and Ken Schaffer of the Douglas Corporation, and their response was one of unqualified enthusiasm. Douglas, you see, is a multi-media (books, records and films) company which is more than willing to tackle supposedly “uncommercial” enterprises if the product is artistically justified and the karma is good. To reinforce their honorable intentions, they work on a straight 50/50 profit sharing arrangement with their artists.