Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different world, all right: Vegas-style glam, with a heavy German accent. Indeed, the show--conceived by Berlin restaurateur Hans-Peter Wodarz and a hit in Berlin, Venice and Paris--is stopping in New York City (through March) en route to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But the show, which offers a meal, a circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous...
...Keaton the end came abruptly, sadly, in the late '20s. His producer, who was also his brother-in-law, sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today...
Levin's relationship with Captain Outrageous has improved since 1985. At that time, Turner's grab for the MGM film library left him desperately short of cash. To the rescue rode Malone's TCI and Time Inc. (which later merged with Warner to form the current company). The stakes Turner gave them in return for the bailout, however--18% for Time Warner and 21% for TCI--left him beholden to the companies and unable to make major moves without their consent. When Levin vetoed a Turner plan to acquire NBC last year, Turner publicly complained that Time Warner's treatment...
Michael Eisner is happy doing things. He just has to be doing everything. In 1989, during the televised extravaganza that launched the Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida, Eisner noticed that a spangle from the costume of one of the 1,200 dancers had fallen on the red carpet. He waited till the cameras had passed, then darted out, picked up the spangle and put it in his tuxedo pocket. At Disney, neatness counts. So, for the chairman and ceo, does a twin obsession for the big picture and the smallest, shiniest detail...
...movie star; in Los Angeles. It was in her big-screen debut in 1937 that Turner first strode across the screen in a form-following sweater. The film's title: They Won't Forget. And they didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live up to his character...