Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone) that it had to be rescued by a Saudi prince who agreed to invest $400 million in new equity. Even so, penny-pinching guests are still skimping on food, hotel rooms and merchandise, which is slowing Disney's plans in the area for offices, shopping centers and an MGM film theme park...
...fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington, and he saw how lonely I was in Hollywood. I'd never wanted to be in show business; I'd wanted to be a schoolteacher...
...pacemaker and found she had less energy. "At the same time," she says, "I went through this delayed reaction to the deaths ((a few years earlier)) of my father and my son and my husband, Lenny Hayton, a fine man I met when he was music arranger at MGM. For about nine years I went underground...
These network-owned channels have been guaranteed carriage in major markets; the fate of other cable newcomers has been much different. In April, Ted Turner launched Turner Classic Movies, which offers many vintage, long-unseen films from Turner's MGM and Warner Bros. archives. Cable systems serving only 250,000 homes were persuaded to sign up. Horizons Cable Network, a pbs-backed channel that plans to cover lectures, panel discussions and other educational and cultural events, had hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate...
Edgar Sr. blazed a path for his son in another way: investing in show business. He tried gaining control of Paramount but lost, then bought a big block of MGM and actually became chairman in 1969, only to resign after Kirk Kerkorian took over the company. Bronfman continued, however, to back Broadway shows (one was 1776) and motion pictures. In 1970 Edgar Jr., then 14, found a script on a table of the family's New York City apartment and talked his father into bankrolling Melody, a movie based on that script. He skipped summer camp and went to London...