 The film was previewed before an audience of young people in  Northpoint Theater, San Francisco, on a Sunday morning with  Universal Studios rep Ned Tanen (qv) in attendance. In a story  that is now legendary in Hollywood, Tanan was not impressed with the  film, despite a good audience reaction, and called it  "unreleasable". Francis Ford Coppola (qv), enraged at the comment,  offered to buy the film from Universal (some stories claim he  offered to write the check then and there) while the exhausted,  burned