Word: goldwynism
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...delay of two days," he began cheerfully, "it's been tough on the nominees. How would you like to spend two days in a crouch?" His final assignment was even more painful: the recital of Academy self-congratulation comparing such movie pioneers as Jesse Lasky and Samuel Goldwyn to "the man from Atlanta" because "they, too, had a dream...
Warner was the last of the old-style movie moguls - the wily pioneers like Goldwyn, Mayer and Cohn - who ruled their lots like caliphs, buying stars like steers, firing directors as easily as office boys, and selecting scripts by gut instinct. And the power vacuum they left behind is being filled by men with polished fingernails and vocabularies to match. The arrival of the newcomers may not guarantee a Celluloid City renaissance. But it has already generated a measurable optimism...
...American Film Institute, they would probably go off into a corner and cry quietly. As President and Archive Director respectively, Greed is of more than routine interest to them: Erich von Stroheim made it in 1924 and his first edited version was eight hours long; making concessions to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he re-edited the film, finally stopping at a four-hour cut. At that point MGM seized it, cut it to two hours and ten minutes, and the remaining six hours has been missing ever since...
Hollywood is beyond parody. Almost anything said or written about it, no matter how absurd, somehow, somewhere, some time comes close to the truth. Author Richard Condon, who spent 22 years as a pressagent for Producers Cecil B. DeMille, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, et a!., has tried to defy that basic Hollywood tenet by inventing a story so preposterous that it cannot possibly seem real. He has only partly succeeded...
After 45 years of publishing magazines and books, Time Inc. last week announced a move into the newspaper business. Having recently decided to buy Little, Brown & Co. as well as 300,000 shares of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Time Inc. reached an agreement to buy its first daily-the Newark Evening News. Time Inc. agreed to exchange roughly 325,000 shares of its common stock and take over a News mortgage debt of about $5,000,000, in return for all the stock of the Evening News Publishing Co. of Newark. The News Co., however, will retain ownership of Newark radio...