Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Holidays? If any single man personifies the violent change in Hollywood, it is Aubrey, who in October became MGM's third president in eleven months. They called him "the Smiling Cobra" when he was president of CBS-TV from 1959 to 1965, and at MGM he is to be the new broom-or ax. The company he took over was in paralysis after three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that...