Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tourists. But no, not tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic entrails of the International. Elvis, dwarfed by eight foot high shanks of beef, by linen and glassware and advertising. By MGM celluloid. Elvis. That...
...Elvis renaissance seemed to be a reprieve. Television brought us his special. RCA brought out a few retrospective discs. Las Vegas lured him back to live performance. MGM promised, and has just delivered, its instant replay documentary of his last Las Vegas...
...early 1960s, when he was MGM Television's Dr. Kildare, Richard Chamberlain got more fan mail than just about anyone on the lot since Clark Gable played Rhett Butler. In 1966, when the TV series ended. Chamberlain decided to start his career all over again...
Chamberlain was not to the Shakespearean canon born. He grew up in Beverly Hills and, out of "sheer uncooperativeness," did not learn to read until the fourth grade. He eventually managed a B.A. from Pomona College, and, after some acting lessons, landed an MGM contract. The studio gave him the Kildare part after passing over 35 others (including Lew Ayres, who created the role in films). It did not, however, make an actor out of him, as Sir Cedric Hardwicke once told Chamberlain. "You're doing it all backwards. You're a star...
...more offensive condescending and dishonest. Some invidious ratio is at work here, witness the latest entry in the let's-make-money-off-the-kids sweepstakes, Stanley Kramer's R.P.M. The initials stand for "revolutions per minute" and a movie noteworthy for nastiness. Even The Strawberry Statement, MGM's pasteurized primer on revolution, looks by comparison like Mao's Little Red Book...