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...editor since 1959. "If you don't, you become a house organ." In fact, while both papers yearn to be taken seriously as tough, independent journalistic enterprises (and both have shown grit and knowledge in covering events like the ouster in July of embattled United Artists Chairman David Begelman), Daily Variety, founded in 1933, can more justly claim a tradition of shrewd analysis and lively if eccentric writing. Indeed, the paper and its weekly sister publication originated the technique, now widely imitated by general-interest dailies, of scrutinizing the box-office record of a film in its all-important...
Before the publication of Indecent Exposure last month, David McClintick's investigative work had become a chic bicoastal accessory. Movers, shakers and pretenders read pirated copies, chuckling over David Begelman's embezzlement of $84,000 from Columbia Pictures in 1977, which precipitated one of the most acrimonious power struggles in film history...
Just 41/2 years after a little matter of embezzlement cost him the top job at Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, 60, is out of a job again, fired as chairman of United Artists. Of the 24 films he initiated, eleven have been released. Only one, Poltergeist, is a major hit (box office grosses of $48 million to date). Meanwhile, there is the imminent publication of Indecent Exposure, a meticulous recounting of the embezzlement scandal. But Author David McCintick, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, does not think his book had much to do with Begelman's latest downfall. "There...
...other forms of self-exoneration to be confused with it, though they be equally impressive. The "psychological mishap" is quite popular; when David Begelman, the former head of Columbia Pictures, was asked why he stole $60,000 from his company, he cited "neurotic displays of self-destructiveness." Political necessity is a good excuse as well-the Soviets, for example, explaining their invasion of Afghanistan as a gesture to save Afghanistan. Then there is the "I don't recall," a sort of buck pass to one's memory. Blaming the state is a standby too, as are blaming modernity...
...first time in a generation, MGM is the busiest studio in Hollywood. Last year Kerkorian brought in David Begelman, the controversial but successful former head of Columbia, to run the movie operation. So far this year, MGM has started eight films, compared with a total of 15 for Columbia, Disney, Paramount and Fox combined. Begelman has also announced that he will be developing 51 films. These include Tarzan, the Ape Man starring Bo Derek, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row with Nick Nolle, and American Rhapsody with Punk Rocker Deborah Harry...