Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '30s, Roselli became the Chicago Mob's man in Hollywood and was subsequently jailed for three years for plotting, with seven others, to extort $1 million from movie companies. The muscle: threatening to use a Mafia-controlled union of stagehands to close down production unless the studios paid up. Even so, the dapper, debonair Roselli remained a luminary of sorts in Hollywood. He married a starlet, got a piece of two nightclubs, and helped produce two crime films in the late 1940s, Canyon City and He Walked by Night. Says a producer who knew...
...early '50s, Roselli even be came a member of the Friars Club, Hollywood's frat house. He was backed by none other than Comedian Georgie Jessel, the club's founder. "There were other members who had served sentences," Jessel recalled last week. "I said anyone who had paid his debt to society was O.K., so I made him a Friar...
...1930s and has been Disney president since 1971. A tall, husky man whose use of profanity is limited to an occasional G-rated "damn," Card Walker occupies an unpretentious office on the Disney lot not far from Dopey Drive and Mickey Avenue. His only concessions to the Hollywood movie mogul image are tinted glasses and a sleek gray Porsche (license plate: CARWIN...
Double Duty. Whatever its problems, Disney has perfected one talent that other Hollywood fantasy factories envy: piggybacking. The familiar cartoon characters boost attendance at the theme parks, and the parks increase attendance at the movies. Though no one at Disney claims to be Walt's equal in artistry or dreaming, Card Walker has made Disney's characters do double duty as stars and as barkers to all the world. As a merchandising idea, it has proved to be almost as successful an inspiration as the original Mickey Mouse...
Died. Fritz Lang, 85, Viennese-born film director of early German suspense thrillers (Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, M) and Hollywood melodramas (Fury); after a long illness; in Los Angeles. A tall, terse perfectionist, Lang was "profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death." M, for example, was a horrifying study of a compulsive child murderer. When his next film, The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1932), was banned by the Third Reich, Lang fled to Hollywood, where he spent 20 highly successful years working with stars like Spencer Tracy and Henry Fonda in a variety of social melodramas, westerns...