Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name of Robertson and others and had padded his cushiony expense account by an additional $23,000. Begelman, when found out, admitted his guilt. In almost any other industry, a company executive caught with his hand in the till would be abruptly dismissed. Not so, apparently, in Hollywood. Begelman, who submitted himself to psychiatric care, was simply suspended. After his analyst announced a cure, Begelman-who had paid back his ill-got gains-was reinstated as chief of Columbia's motion pictures and television operations...
...ardent fans in filmdom, Begelman is a show-biz wizard who helped save a major studio from bankruptcy. To his enemies, he is a relentless competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter...
...made little difference to Hollywood, which, above all, worships success, and Begelman was wildly successful. As an agent, he was an expert at "packaging"-bringing directors, actors, writers and producers together into deals that would produce profitmaking blockbuster films. In 1973, when Columbia was floundering from huge losses and debilitating debts, Begelman was tapped for the studio's presidency, and brought out a string of flicks that restored Columbia to financial health (net income for the fiscal year ending last June was $34.6 million). Among his big moneymakers...
...awesome. I hadn't been so excited since they started showing the night version of Hollywood Squares...
...gripes against their superiors and the semimilitary system in which they toil. It follows that the participants in these raunchy revels are The Choirboys. The movie of the same title just got in under the New Year's Day wire as 1977's most repulsive release, but Hollywood will have to go some...