Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures, "you're sticking out your chin." Paramount and MGM are, with few exceptions, enforcing a $2,000,000 limit...
...prima donna producers and directors with a record of bringing pictures in late and overbudget. Blake Edwards, whose The Great Race came in at 100% over, and his wife Julie Andrews, no longer surefire box office since Star!, are reportedly being paid a $1,000,000 settlement by MGM not to shoot their previously committed film, She Loves...
...established stars must face up to other adjustments, too, with the industry's new orientation toward youth. "The older stars are going to have to play older roles if they want to work with us," says MGM President James Aubrey. "We can't make a picture with I Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr groping with each other any more. That's obscene. It's like watching a couple of grandparents pawing each other." That even goes for Liz Taylor...
What Holidays? If any single man personifies the violent change in Hollywood, it is Aubrey, who in October became MGM's third president in eleven months. They called him "the Smiling Cobra" when he was president of CBS-TV from 1959 to 1965, and at MGM he is to be the new broom-or ax. The company he took over was in paralysis after three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that...
Sutherland's first roles were in ghoul films (Die! Die! My Darling!, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors). "I needed the money and the experience." From the scare flicks it was a struggle to MGM's The Dirty Dozen in 1968. As one of the bottom six of the Dozen, a slack-jawed soldier with a head as impenetrable as a Government-issue helmet, Sutherland so impressed Director Robert Aldrich that he ordered up the tour-de-farce scene where Sutherland impersonates a general and inspects the troops on an American Army base...