Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regret it for the rest of his life." Happily, such stentorian tones do not often interfere with a drama no dream merchant could concoct. Hollywood, superb at turning its sand grains into pearls, stayed true to tradition. Far from suffering obloquy and ostracism, Begelman went on to pilot MGM. Hirschfield became head of 20th Century-Fox, where he successfully defended an executive accused of padding an expense account. By last week serious bids were being offered for TV rights to Indecent Exposure. A nagging question remains: Will some producer try to play a Begelman in the adaptation? -By J.D. Reed
...registration fee, top-shelf shoppers were greeted at the airport by young women in tuxedos and whisked by limousine to the MGM Grand Hotel, where they were lectured by Economist Arthur Laffer and entertained by Bob Hope as they mingled with other high rollers. Inside the hotel's Capitol Room, even those who were not striking deals said that they had got their money's worth. "I'm always interested in finding out what's happening in the marketplace, and it's not always easy to find out what's happening," explained G. Allan...
...Torres, owner of the Aladdin, which made the switch to revues in March. "The performers have absolutely no regard for the casino operator. People don't want to pay $40 or $50 a ticket to see them." Indeed, after Labor Day, only three Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace, the MGM Grand and the Riviera, plan to book headliners, less than half the number often years...
Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
Describing Kissinger's post-operative recovery as "routine" and "straightforward," Dr. Roman DeSanctis, chief of cardiac serious at MGM, said yesterday, "Any Complications are unexpected. His heart achieved beautifully after the operation...