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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unusual Door. Tallest and most obvious symbol of all this rejuvenation is a newly constructed, 14-story, $8,500,000 office building that rises above Universal City, the 425-acre home lot of Universal Pictures and Universal Television-and of MCA Inc., which owns both. Two years ago, at the insistence of the U.S. Department of Justice, MCA ceased to be the world's largest talent agency, preferring to concentrate on its efforts as a film studio, and it has since become the world's largest motion picture and television company. More than any other studio, MCA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: A New Kind of King | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...last year, the first thing she brought up was a reminder that among the various film offers that might come her way, My Fair Lady took absolute precedence in her mind. The room was crowded and all heads turned toward her. "Don't you know?" one of the MCA people said. "They announced this morning that Audrey Hepburn has the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Once & Future Queen | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...said Connery. "If you want me, send me a script." He picks up checks (something most actors consider against union rules), he has no personal pressagent, and out of sheer disinterest, he turns down invitations that others might pay for: he was asked to help set the cornerstone of MCA's new skyscraper, but he shot a round of golf instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Canny Scot | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...Monday, his pulse began to fall; his body-resting on a simple, low wooden bed to which he had been moved to make medication easier-shook with spasms. Late in the afternoon, he spoke his last words: "Mater mca [my mother]"-the first words of an invocation to the Virgin Mary that he had learned as a seminarian. Then his body was convulsed by a brief shudder, and he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Papacy: Vere Papa Mortuus Est | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Justice Department clearly withdrew because Hollywood is becoming Unemploymentsville, with so many pictures now being made abroad. TV and movie unions appealed last month to the President and the Attorney General to let MCA have its way. "Now," said MCA President Lew Wasserman, when the feds faded last week and bulldozers grunted mightily to clear a site for a new 14-story studio office building, "we will see if Hollywood will become a desert. I don't think so. But I could be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Feds Faded | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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