Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced by and starring the sexiest number in "10,"and directed by her husband John? Convinced that the film would besmirch the jungle lord's reputation, the Burroughs estate went to court. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Judge Henry Werker previewed the film and re-viewed two earlier MGM versions of Burroughs' first Tarzan novel. His "suggestion": that MGM cut four sequences displaying Bo in various stages of undress. According to John Derek. Werker took the last three reels of the print into a Manhattan editing room and indicated with a grease pencil which scenes should be removed...
...Wine and Roses, A Shot in the Dark), he suffered an equal number of flops (Darling Lili, Wild Rovers, The Carey Treatment). These pictures, he insists, were sabotaged from conception to cutting room by studio production chiefs: Robert Evans, of Paramount, where Lili was made, and James Aubrey, of MGM, which financed the others...
After a long period of corporate confusion, Kerkorian divided his holdings into two parts last year. He spun off his hotel and gambling interests, which include the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, into a separate company called MGM Grand Hotels Inc., and his movie properties into MGM Film Co. It was shortly after the two MGM companies were split that a fire took 84 lives last November at the MGM Grand...
...first time in a generation, MGM is the busiest studio in Hollywood. Last year Kerkorian brought in David Begelman, the controversial but successful former head of Columbia, to run the movie operation. So far this year, MGM has started eight films, compared with a total of 15 for Columbia, Disney, Paramount and Fox combined. Begelman has also announced that he will be developing 51 films. These include Tarzan, the Ape Man starring Bo Derek, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row with Nick Nolle, and American Rhapsody with Punk Rocker Deborah Harry...