Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studio born: his father Eliot is chairman of the board of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Married to an English girl, Ken Hyman is a relaxed Anglophile who openly wishes his work would allow him to live in London. As a compromise of sorts, he had his script-cluttered Hollywood office decorated in dark-paneled English-club style. Hyman first earned his stars as an independent producer in 1965 with The Hill, an acerbic antiwar film that starred Sean Connery in one of his few impressive non-Bond roles. Hyman moved up to the big time with The Dirty Dozen...
...spotlights swept the sky when it happened. No vinyl microskirted star lets babbled by; no gawkers gathered under a spangled marquee. Yet the event was as important as any premiere in Hollywood history. On the day in 1966 when Jack Warner sold his studio to the parvenu Seven Arts Productions, a new movie epoch began...
...major Hollywood production centers are purring with some 150 feature films scheduled for 1968. Budgets are bigger than ever, now that the vast conglomerate industries have moved in and allowed the studios to enjoy gelt by association. To maintain a liaison be tween the new financiers and the new film makers, studios are turning to the new executives. Cool, crisp as a bank note, three such men, none of them yet 40, are already the masters of production at some of the nation's biggest and best-known studios...
...father's 1957 version of The Sun Also Rises. In 1962, Darryl Zanuck, after taking charge of Fox, put his son then 27-in charge of production. Cynical studio executives snickered about the son still rising. They snicker no longer. Though his meticulously neat desk in Hollywood has a phone with a hot line to Dad in New York, his sometime critics grudgingly concede that the kid with the sulphurous temper has something-and besides he isn't a kid any more. Since the financial success of The Sound of Music- a Dick Zanuck product...
Paramount has put Vice President Robert Evans, 37, in charge of production. A reformed clothing manufacturer and failed actor, Bob Evans invaded the Hollywood hierarchy like a character from a '30s scenario. The co-founder of the fashion firm Evan-Picone, Evans was lounging by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel one day in 1956, when Norma Shearer gave him the eye; she just knew that he was the ideal man to play her late husband, Irving Thalberg, in a movie called The Man of a Thousand Faces. For three years Evans sleepwalked his way through the kind...