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MEMO FROM DESILU PRODUCTIONS: Good morning, Mr. Getter. We like your script. In fact, we think its potential is greater than you realize. Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, Bruce, will be to boil down your feature-length thriller to a tight, pulsating 49 minutes, then come up with 27 more just like it. Same basic plot on which the fate of mankind hangs. Same fascinating attention to visual gimmickry. We think we've got a world-capable series here. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics...
Gazing at the miles of neighboring urban sprawl and walking through the TV treadmills of Desilu and Warner's, the casual visitor to Hollywood will find it difficult to believe that it was once the habitat of Cro-Magnon man. His name was Harry Cohn, president and production head at Columbia Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most...
...business talk of the territory: >Gulf & Western Industries, the auto parts, chemicals and mining conglomerate, which went hip-deep into the entertainment field last October by buying troubled Paramount Pictures in a $165 million stock swap deal, waded in farther. G&W agreed to take over Hollywood's Desilu Productions, the TV film maker controlled by Comedienne Lucille Ball, for $17 million in stock. Desilu produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including I Spy and Corner Pyle. All of this earned Desilu...
This morning they go big-time, starting production on a Desilu movie "Feeling Good," formerly "Rock Around the Hub." They'll pose in the Yard, then move on to the Boston Common to titillate 500 select Boston teeny-boppers with some more eye-popping sound...
...give scope to Story, Director Stevens filmed it in Hollywood and in Glen Canyon, Utah. And he summoned unto him so many actors great and small that Galilee often seems but a stone's throw from Desilu. The long, long road to Calvary is lined with the usual yea-verily types (Claude Rains as Herod the Great, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist) plus, it would seem, any other celebrity ready to trade top billing for a chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters...