Word: execs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exec [suave but stern]: All right, gentlemen. We've sold the studio. We've sold the offices. We sold the commissary. We even sold the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Now we have to sell movies. [Low chorus of enthusiastic murmurs from subordinates.] We gave them Zabriskie Point, and we even put back all the sex and dope stuff that had been cut out. The public still didn't go for it. We gave them The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, the tender story of a student's search for identity. Nice...
...Exec: We've already done that. I mean something fresh for the youth market. How about it? [He looks up and down the bench. Finally Subordinate No. 3, easily distinguishable from the others by his long hair, his love beads, his puce bell-bottoms and the sweet-smelling smoke coming from the thin cigarette between his fingers, casually raises his hand...
...Exec [after long pause): You know ... I like it. I really do. I like it. [Executives on bench make noises of enthusiasm.] For the kid, we'll get that small actor from Strawberry and Executioner. You know, the one who reminds me of Mickey Rooney...
...Exec: Right. And let's get that Sally Kellerman broad...
...wild-although, as Ike protests, neither Tina nor the Ikettes "ever bumps or grinds. Their hips only move from side to side." After various Hollywood agencies pressured the network to air Ike and Tina, they finally appeared on Hollywood A-Go-Go, (One story has it that a network exec swore that Shinding would be cancelled if Ike and Tina appeared. When they did, the program was killed the next week.) Not long ago, they played on the EdSullivan show; Tina had to change the line "the more I grease you, the slicker you get" and the camera was kept...