Word: ince
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months Hollywood and Vine has buzzed with gossip of a really big show cranking up in the movie capital. Producer: the U.S. Justice Department, whose trustbusters have long been roaming the town like talent scouts interviewing actors, agents and executives. Reluctant villain: the mammoth MCA Inc., which acts as agent for half or more of the U.S.'s top actors, is the nation's largest producer of filmed television shows, leases a library of old movies for late-night TViewing, and last year grossed $82.4 million. It would be an antitrust epic, and the story line would...
...civil suit in Los Angeles federal court last week, the U.S. charged that the "predatory" activities of The Octopus violated the Celler-Kefauver anti-merger act. The charges noted that MCA recently acquired Decca Records, and, through Decca, control of Universal Pictures Co., Inc. MCA already owns Universal's lot. leases part of it back to the movie company for $1,000,000 a year. Now, by taking over Universal itself, MCA might well be in a position to dominate the movies as it already dominates the canned-TV business...
...years at any job, but his resume is impressive all the same: time and again he has breezed through energetic sales campaigns that have brought anemic magazines and television programs safely into the black. In 15 years on the Madison Avenue beat (with Hearst, NBC and, most recently, Interpublic, Inc., parent corporation of McCann, Erickson), New York-born Culligan has acquired an unshakable reputation as "a tiger of a salesman" and a gifted executive...
...away from them. The Brattle people, you see, are also (as Janua Films, Inc.) the national distributors of every Bergman movie. Consequently, Bergman to them is sound economics, which means solid profit. Which means the Brattle has sold...
Post-Mortem in Zurich. As they struggled to straighten out their own finances, it was more difficult to find such concern for Eddy Gilbert's welfare among other of his former friends and associates. Before he resigned as president of E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., and fled to Brazil, Gilbert admitted to writing $1,953,000 in unauthorized company checks in a futile effort to meet margin calls on his stock in Bruce and Chicago's Celotex Corp. Fortnight ago. a federal grand jury charged fraud and ticked off 15 counts that, if proved, could put Gilbert...