Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other notable examples of Hollywood's crazy finances...
...According to Hollywood scuttlebutt, Gary Grant has turned the tables on Universal-International. Instead of taking a percentage from the studio for his current film, Operation Petticoat, Grant is said to have persuaded the studio to take a percentage from him (10% of the gross) while he produces the picture...
Bulletin Board. The anniversary issue was hardly must reading on Broadway (as weekly Variety usually is), even for the advertisers who had subsidized it. In Hollywood, just a few months before, many of them had felt a similar bite for the 28th anniversary issue of the Hollywood Reporter (384 pp.) and the silver jubilee issue of Daily Variety (436 pp.). Some of them were beginning to wonder if the publicity was worth the price. Purred Actress Faye Emerson: "Whenever I open in anything, the very next day a woman calls from Variety and says. 'Did you see our nice...
...something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words, what the weighty issue added up to was a catalogue of who is solvent-and who is sharp enough to look solvent-in the world of entertainment. It was something for everyone, from Hollywood producers to hall-room has-beens, to leaf through during their idle hours until the next anniversary issue rolls off the presses...
Actually, the main trouble with the picture is the lack of a controlling sense of style in the acting-a common fault in Hollywood's period pieces. Actor Boyer, for instance, falls somewhere between Paris and Hollywood, but wherever it is, it is not New Orleans. And he seems understandably embarrassed by many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits...