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...Writer Rod Serling recalls: "Zugsmith called me into his office once and told me that he wanted me to help him bring M-G-M back to the top of the heap with quality pictures. Then he gave me my first assignment. It was something called Rape, Baby." Local Off-Color. Working in much the same vein is Jerry Wald, who recently announced that Peyton Place was going to be a grandfather. So successful was P.P.'s first sequel, Return to Peyton Place, that it will have a sequel of its own, Peyton Place Revisited. Like...
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (Galaxy; M-G-M), is a mythical, mid-Atlantic kingdom that, according to Plato, existed 115 centuries ago. before it rolled over and sank to the bottom of the sea. The legend lived on to tempt some 25,000 novelists, historians and playwrights to mention it or conjecture about it; but Hollywood has strangely looked the other way. Now much-Oscared George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk...
...invasion of the popa'a (white man), even in the pre-jet phase, has already caused changes. M-G-M has been shooting a movie in Tahiti for months (TIME, Feb. 10); and while in native lingo Hollywood is still the term for jail, it is also beginning to mean cash. The influx of money has created the desire for more, and youngsters who were once content with innocent native life are looking around for new ways to earn more money. The pull for tips is growing. Even the dancing and feasting sometimes lose their improvised quality...
...Loves (M-G-M). Laurence Harvey follows his square Lithuanian jaw right through Shirley MacLaine's bedroom window, grabs her by the shoulders and shakes her hard: "Are you so happy sleeping alone...
...good shape, G.W.T.W. is safe. Prints can be "enhanced," if worst comes to worst, and even if the master negative should deteriorate, film technicians could reconstitute it from one of several sets of the "color strips" stored at widely separated points in the U.S. and Europe. Says an M-G-M executive: "There is no reason to think this film will ever disappear. It will be around as long as people remember the Civil War." Around, and making millions...