Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood has flirted with the poet since its infancy; this week the American Film Institute is showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...
...penchant for bold ideas. He brings a shopkeeper's mentality to some costs, yet spends lavishly on quests such as the Goodwill Games, and doesn't want to get rid of favorite assets such as the Atlanta Braves. He abjures debt, but it almost drowned him after he bought MGM for about $1 billion...
...well-regarded Calley, 66, succeeds Alan Levine, who was forced out two weeks ago. Besides releasing hits such as Birdcage and Goldeneye at UA, Calley gussied it up, along with sister MGM, for sale to financier Kirk Kerkorian. That sparked speculation that Sony may want Calley to sell or find a partner for its own studios...
Before Tupac Shakur died last Friday, as he lay in a Las Vegas hospital with a lung removed, an intestinal wound and two fingers missing, a security video turned up. It was shot not long before he was; it showed the casino area of the MGM Grand Hotel, where Shakur had stayed while in town for the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon heavyweight fight. According to hotel employees, the tape recorded the superstar rapper and his entourage brutally "beating and stomping" an unidentified man. The Las Vegas police have seen the tape, but they claim that its contents are unrelated...
When the Olympic torch was lit earlier this month, Hollywood watched its box office go up in flames. Moviegoing dropped more than 20% as four new films--Disney's Kazaam, MGM's Fled, Universal's The Frighteners and Columbia's Multiplicity--withered in a dreadful midsummer conflagration...