Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Louis Shonceit, 69, owner of Mackey's Inc., one of Broadway's biggest ticket brokers, who peddled 200,000 seats a year to a clientele that ran the gamut, Shonceit liked to say, from George Abbot to Darryl Zanuck; after a long illness following a stroke in 1965; in Palma de Mallorca, Spain...
...picture must gross 2½ times its cost to break even. As Warner's President Ted Ashley puts it, "If you get hurt with the $15 million films, you get de-balled." Though his $20 million Hello, Dolly! may nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures, "you're sticking out your chin." Paramount and MGM are, with few exceptions, enforcing a $2,000,000 limit...