Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bounty almost literally lived up to its title when Brando worked against the grain of the production with an eccentric interpretation of Fletcher Christian, repeatedly overrode the director, invited himself to collaborate with the scriptwriter, insisted on a postlude about the subsequent lives of the mutineers, and generally cost MGM extra millions and perhaps a year in production time...
Bennett's new label, MGM Records, gave him 10% of its jazz subsidiary, Verve Records, and the right to produce his own recordings. His first LP for MGM, The Good Things in Life (adorned, as many of his albums are, with one of his own primitive-style paintings), confirms the wisdom of letting him follow his well-tried approach...
Died. Don Loper, 66, designer of celebrity wardrobes; in Santa Monica, Calif. Loper went to Hollywood in the early '40s to co-produce and dance in the Ginger Rogers movie Lady in the Dark. At MGM he enjoyed a seven-way contract that made him dancer, choreographer, costume designer, set designer, producer, director and actor. He later opened a Sunset Strip couture house from which he clothed some of Hollywood's most famous women-including Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Claudette Colbert-for prices up to $25,000 a dress...
...MGM-produced Shaft films are illustrative. John Shaft, a black private detective who enforces the laws that repress much of the black community, is rewarded for his efforts with a fabulous penthouse, beautiful women, and lots of money. Serious black activists who are desperately trying to help the community, however, are portrayed as brash and fumbling idiots who live in coldwater walk-up tenements. The message is clear: be a self-centered hustler and maybe one day you can move to Park Avenue: deal seriously with the struggle for liberation and you are condemned to the ghetto...
...fluke. I attended the first screening of Boorman's previous film open to anyone outside of MGM brass. Boorman was there. A young, very intelligent and open man, he confessed what he felt were his own limits, saying that he'd blown apart some of his films in desperate attempts transcend story, his hope was to find a situation which could be developed in cinematic terms as cleanly as possible, with little expository verbiage and much complexity of image. At least in technique. Deliverance is the film he's been working towards. You can take any one of his frames...