Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each industry executive seems to have a favorite horror story. Producer Irwin Winkler tells of the phone call he received in a mixing room at MGM while he was still dubbing the sound track of Rocky III. "A friend in Paris told me he'd already seen the film on videotape and that it was excellent," says Winkler. "At the same time, they were running it in British pubs and charging admission." Producer David Wolper says that after he completed the picture This Is Elvis, he found that "a projectionist in Chicago was copying the second reel...
Early in this star-strewn memoir, Irene Mayer Selznick recalls one of the many admonitions that she heard from her father, the second M of MGM, Louis B. Mayer: "You can't run a house if you don't know how to cook. Your cook will have no respect for you." Years later, separated from David O. Selznick and temporarily cookless in a Manhattan apartment, L.B.'s daughter comes home to a ghastly vision of uncooked poultry in the refrigerator and the realization that "I had never touched a raw chicken...
DIED. Bronislau Kaper, 81, Polish-born composer of scores for such MGM films as San Francisco, Gaslight, both versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (with Clark Gable in 1935 and Marlon Brando in 1962) and Lili, for which he won an Oscar in 1953; of cancer; in Beverly Hills...
These characters are all placed against the backdrop of a land of illusion and decadence. Alex and Jerry check into the Dr. Zhivago suite at the MGM Grand, complete with sunken bathtub, a mirror over the bed, and a doorbell that plays the theme from the film which gives the room its name. This is Las Vegas in all its tacky splendor, a world which no one in the films seems to take seriously...
...through calamities all of his own devising with a bad little boy's giggle at just how cute he is. He is not cute, not charming, not nearly substantial enough for a comedy about high rollers in Vegas. Alex bravadoes himself into the Dr. Zhivago Suite at the MGM Grand Hotel with his friend Jerry (Burt Young), who plays Oscar to Alex's Felix and is also a compulsive gambler: "I go to a party, I bet on the hors d'oeuvres...