Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started shortly after 7 on Friday morning as smoke drifted through the glittering casino on the first floor of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Within minutes the world's largest gambling hall-a 140-yard stretch of roulette, blackjack and dice tables and 1,000 slot machines-was engulfed in flames. The fire raced through the entire ground floor of the 2,076-room hotel, one of the largest in the world, destroying two cavernous, 1,000-seat showrooms, an arcade of 40 shops, and five restaurants. "Flames were shooting out the entrance," recalls Theresa Ricky...
...least 334 were injured; officials feared that the number of deaths might climb higher still. Said Las Vegas Fire Chief Ray Parrish: "People tend to hide when they get afraid, so it may be a day and a half more before we can arrive at a final figure." The MGM Grand Hotel fire is the second worst such blaze in U.S. history, surpassed only by the Winecoff Hotel disaster in Atlanta in 1946, which killed...
Since it began July 21, the strike has halted work on about 50 TV series and more than 20 films, including those being shot on location. The cast and crew of MGM's Rich and Famous, starring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset, were called home from Manhattan. MTM Enterprises, which had finally been persuaded to shoot an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati in Cincinnati, was forced to stop after only two days. "It took us three years to get them here," wailed Mari Barnum, Ohio firm bureau manager. "If we run into weather problems after the strike is over...
...Hollywood"; in New York City. Schary wrote more than 40 scripts, among them the Oscar-winning Boys Town. Starting in 1941 he also produced or oversaw the production of some 300 films, including Lassie Come Home, Blackboard Jungle and Tea and Sympathy. Dismissed as head of production at MGM in 1956 because stockholders were unhappy with company earnings, he turned to playwriting. His 1958 Sunrise at Campobello, won five Tony Awards...
...providing a raucous good time, and not so coincidentally promoting the Village People's new album. (The title song consumes the final eleven minutes of screen time.) It is hard to get angry about this harmless, weightless enterprise, an attempt to blend the spirit of the opulent old MGM musicals with the jackhammer sound of disco. The movie brings a certain chaotic zest to the group's Y.M.C.A., transforming it into a lavender update of a Busby Berkeley danceathon; and Paul Sand performs comic wonders with the role of a manic music executive. But there is no style...