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...artist who raised painting to such a pitch of ecstasy that he went mad. The result has been to make Van Gogh one of the most misinterpreted artists in history. In an ambitious Hollywood effort to right the record and explain the inner workings of an artist, M-G-M this week released its version of Van Gogh's life, Lust for Life, based on Irving Stone's high-colored 1934 bestseller...
Will topnotch oldtime movies on TV screens enrich or degrade U.S. television? CBS, which recently paid $20 million for 725 M-G-M classics (including Little Women; Mrs. Miniver; The Philadelphia Story; Camille; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Mutiny on the Bounty) appeared overconfident. "Our audiences will be assured many additional hours of great entertainment to complement the regular schedule," boasted the network. But what TV chains have apparently overlooked is that some of the "great" oldtimers may not look so shiny today. Last week's big TV movie, Top Hat, for example, did not look as good...
Since the '30s, America's tastes and talents have changed with the social whirlwinds, and David Copperfield may not have grown up with them. The M-G-M films, largest of a staggering assortment purchased by all three webs for fall release, are pre-1949. If they seem dated to an audience brought up on more sophisticated stuff, the networks can only hope to fall back on their nostalgic value...
After turning down $50 million for the sale of its movies to a company that distributes films on TV, M-G-M announced last week that it is getting into the business of distributing films on TV itself. The studio also announced that it is going to buy or acquire an interest in TV stations (limited by Federal Communications Commission to five for any one owner), said that it will expand its activities to special productions for TV and that it will dump on the TV market for the first time about 770 feature films and 900 shorts...
From almost any point of view, this ballet seems as good as many (and rather better than some) in the standard repertory. Indeed, M-G-M apparently thought it was too good for the general public. Kelly's next effort, a terpsy-turvy take-off on Schnitzler's La Ronde-in which a daisy chain of lovers passes a bracelet (it was syphilis in the original) from one to another until it gets back where it started from-is mostly not much better than the brothel sequence in any other Technicolor musical. The third offering...