Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Inc.'s partner in the production of a modern MARCH OF TIME series is the prestigious documentary filmmaker, David L. Wolper, president of Wolper Productions Inc., whose credits include such memorable films as The Making of the President 1960 (20 international awards, four Emmies), D-Day and Hollywood: The Golden Years. Alan Landsburg, producer of Wolper's Peabody Award-winning Biography and Men in Crisis series, will be executive producer...
...progressive boarding school in New York's Adirondack Mountains, the eighth-grader known as "Yassy" rambles on horseback in the fall, skis in the winter, and in spring helps make maple syrup with the other children. It sounds remote from Hollywood and the Riviera, but it isn't, really, because "Yassy" is Princess Yasmin, 15, daughter of the late Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 46, whom she flew down to visit in Manhattan last week. Rita had just finished making The Money Trap for MGM, and seemed almost relieved to report that Yasmin hasn...
...their grandfather, a wealthy merchant. William started diversifying almost by accident; in 1940 he bought a radio station as a gift for a fourth son -now in private business in Florida-who was not interested in tires. Soon William began acquiring stations of his own. In 1955 he added Hollywood's RKO complex-which he bought from Howard Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about 20% of General's 1964 profits of $37 million. Today RKO General owns seven radio and five TV stations, a community antenna television company, 123 movie...
...hungry author, yesterday's get-rich-quick formula was to produce a popular success and then sell it to the movies. Today, Hollywood's supremacy as the fountainhead is under serious challenge by the paperbacks. Once little more than literary scavengers prospecting the bestseller lists for low-risk, high-return reprints, the paperback publishers have risen on soaring profits to the estate of a wealthy and indiscriminate buyer that no writer can afford to ignore...
...autobiography is notable for the acid it exudes. Other Hollywood directors, he remembers distinctly, knew nothing about their craft, the big studio producers rejected anyone with ideas, and the unknowns he ushered into fame -William Powell, Gary Grant-were ungrateful. He exposes in painful detail the ineptitude and neuroses of Actors Emil Tannings and Charles Laughton. By Sternberg's account, Laughton was not only incapable of delivering the simplest line, but could not begin a scene without listening to a recording of the Duke of Windsor's abdication speech, was in a constant state of panic, and froze...