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...them. Meanwhile, as Kerkorian's agent of austerity, Aubrey slashed employment from 6,200 to 1,200 and recently began shifting film production from the silver screen to network television series. Aubrey also sold off MGM properties including its record division, studio real estate, theaters-even Ben-Hur's chariot at a much-publicized prop auction. In September he announced that MGM would withdraw from the film distribution business, cut its feature-film production from 18 a year to six or fewer, and concentrate on such "leisure-time" ventures as the Grand Hotel, the firm...
...Easter Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban summoned French Ambassador Francis Huré from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to present him with what Eban called "documentary evidence" that 18 of the 70 Mirages that France has so far delivered to Libya had been flown to Egypt. Eban said later that he had supplied the French with the number of the planes, the dates of their transfer, their present location, as well as proof that ground installations for controlling the Mirages in flight have been put up at the Egyptian airbase at Almaza, east of Cairo...
LOVE STORY $50,000,000 THE GRADUATE 48,300,000 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO 47,950,000 AIRPORT 45,300,000 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 43,000,000 BEN-HUR $40,750,000 MY FAIR LADY 32,000,000 M-A-S-H 31,100,000 MARY POPPINS 31,000,000 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE...
PROFESSIONAL film critics and motion picture moguls have long proclaimed the death of the Big Hollywood movie. Grand spectacles like Intolerance, Ben Hur, War and Peace and Cleopatra are said to be relics of another era that has ended because of changed audience tastes and a lack of money in the large studios. But each year there are new examples of the staying-power and constant appeal of such pictures. Nicholas and Alexandra proves that the public hasn't tired of gazing humbly at larger-than-life historical personalities on the big silver screen...
...game in the fourth quarter, Jackson had his head taken off while staggering toward the endzone in a try for a two-point conversion that would have tied up the game. Result, Harvard 21, Columbia 19--and a quarterback who felt like Massals after the chariot race in Ben Hur...