Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors could not be sure just what had caused Gregory Peck's eye infection, but M-G-M found its effects painfully clear: the moviemaking machinery had grown so complicated that an actor's inflamed eye was enough to inflict a year's postponement (and thus tie up $1,000,000 already spent) on "the biggest picture of all time...
...months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians. Filming was to start July 1 in Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper for an economy-minded industry. Already shipped from Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing...
...Last week the studio bowed to the fateful intricacy of its own schedule, and put the Roman invasion off to May 1, 1950. When Peck bounced out of the hospital, having lost only two days of shooting on the Fox lot (at the cost of a mere $40,000), M-G-M was already a prisoner of its decision...
...Some M-G-M officials secretly thought it was just as well. Quo Vadis still had no final shooting script, some casting and production details were unsettled; with luck, most of the $1,000,000 investment could be salvaged in the end. Besides, M-G-M still had an even jumpier headache: Judy Garland had flounced off the Annie Get Your Gun lot, and the company had decided to scrap much of some $1,000,000 worth of film and wait until late summer to start the picture all over again with Betty Hutton...
...Colorado. The Goethe Bicentennial Foundation-whose board of directors includes such Goethe admirers as Herbert Hoover, Thomas Mann, Marshall Field, Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corp. of America, and Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder-chose distant Aspen as the seat of homage because, in the words of Chairman Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, "we thought such a celebration ought to require a pilgrimage." At Aspen, Goethe will be the center of round-table discussions, seminars, symposia and symphony concerts. There the philosophy of "the last Universal Man," will be re-examined in terms of 20th Century problems...