Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Saratoga Trunk (1945). Hollywood's version of Edna Ferber's 1941 bestseller about the romance between a roving gambler (Gary Cooper) and an exotic Creole (Ingrid Bergman). Repeat...
...BURNING GLASS, by S. N. Behrman. Set in Salzburg, New York and Hollywood during the '30s, the celebrated playwright's first novel tells of the shifting fortunes of a group of intellectuals and socialites who make very agreeable company...
...With these," says Dr. Robert Feder, a Beverly Hills ear specialist, "everything is reamplified many times, and the noise becomes nearly intolerable." Dr. Victor Goodhill of Hollywood reports that sound levels in many rock-'n'-roll night clubs soar to 125 db. Dr. Charles P. Lebo of the University of California took measuring instruments into two San Francisco rock-'n'-roll joints, where the cacophony was produced mainly by amplified guitars and percussion instruments (see diagram). Throughout the audible-speech range, Lebo found that the sound intensity averaged over 100 db at virtually all frequencies...
Once the world's largest talent agency and more recently Hollywood's leading TV film producer, the Music Corp. of America has long been known in show-business circles as "The Octopus." The sobriquet still stands, even though the company (now called MCA Inc.) stopped handling talent in 1962 under threat of a Justice Department antitrust suit. Besides TV production, MCA has major interests in moviemaking (Universal Pictures), recording (Decca Records) and real estate (Universal City). Last week it agreed to link tentacles with Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corp., itself no small fish when it comes to diversification...
...bookings for other bands. In 1924, Dr. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America as a band-booking agency, found the sideline so profitable that he decided to abandon medicine. Over the years he moved into management of talent in radio and films, succeeded in signing up most of Hollywood's top stars, including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando. Biggest Plums. MCA's chairman remains active in the company, still owns the seat on the New York Stock Exchange he acquired in 1936, also finds time for antique collecting and philanthropy. The man who actually runs...