Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entrepreneurial brains are provided by BJ. Farber, a fictional composite of those remarkable immigrants who parlayed dry-goods stores, nickelodeons and theater chains into movie fiefs. They are here too: Goldwyn, Mayer, Zukor, et al. Farber is a lovable old shark. The book's unlovable shark is Hareem Adani, a New York-based conglomerate chief out to add Farber Films to his corporate shell collection...
...international coproduction, with such distinguished directors as David Lean and Carol Reed. Korda's knighthood-obtained in part for secret services to the British during the war-did not hurt him socially on the West Coast either. They were used to tinny titles out there, but as Sam Goldwyn said, Korda's was ''100% kosher...
Movie music should ideally act as an 'emotional constipator or cathartic" to enhance the creation and release of dramatic tension, John Green '28, former director of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), last night told an audience of about 50 people...
Many directors, of course, do not have the right of final cut, or editing, that most crucial of Hollywood privileges. If it belongs to the producer or the studio head, the director is outclimaxed. William Wyler, for example, directed Wuthering Heights for Samuel Goldwyn in 1939, closing the film with both main characters, Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and Catherine (Merle Oberon), dead. Such a somber ending greatly disturbed Goldwyn, and he asked Wyler to insert a brief clip of the two lovers in heaven. The director firmly refused. Thus it was a stunned Wyler who attended the premiere and watched Heathcliff...
...gravitate toward people with money," he once said, with winning simplicity. The money brushed off like pollen; at one time or another, Sonnenberg handled the p.r. needs of CBS, Philip Morris, David Sarnoff, Lever Brothers, Samuel Goldwyn, Pan Am, Squibb, Pepperidge Farm and others too numerous to count. A prodigios host and incessant partygiver, he was Manhattan's equivalent of the "talking chief on other, Polynesian islands-the chamberlain who enunciates the real chiefs dicta to the tribe, or, as he put it himself, "I supply the Listerine to the commercial dandruff on the shoulders of corporations...