Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single-handedly revived the movie musical, albeit in cartoon form. And with the success of Disney's giddy, macabre new animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas (it is the most popular movie in America right now), we are in a new golden era: Disney is to the '90s what MGM was to the '50s. "We came in with real respect for the established traditions of the American musical," Menken says of his blockbuster cartoon movies. Except, of course, for the tradition of filming actors. It seems that people at the end of the 20th century can accept a movie character...
...Time Warner, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in everything from making movies to building an interactive electronic highway into the home. "It's absolutely the best fit" of all the recent media mergers, says Frank Mancuso, former president of Paramount and now head of MGM...
...Turner simply pines for a movie studio. The last time he bought one, MGM in 1986, he did so by taking on a billion-dollar junk-bond debt that almost lost him his whole company. A year later, after he was bailed out by the country's big cable operators (including Time Inc.), he was obliged to let the corporate outsiders radically hobble his natural cowboy operating style: since then, mortifyingly, Turner has had to get his board's approval whenever he wants to spend more than $2 million. In 1989 they told him he couldn't buy the Financial...
...MGM and UA: The Sequel...
...bantering and plenty of slapstick, was an ace screenwriter. Occasionally the movies have realized this and allowed distinguished actors to put one of his plays on film. Problem is that by the time they receive this reward for services rendered, it may as well be a gold watch. When MGM made Romeo and Juliet in 1936, it cast Leslie Howard, 43, and Norma Shearer, 36, as the star-crossed teens. Laurence Olivier brought sepulchral dash to his Hamlet, but at 41 he was a bit too mature to play a college student convincingly in close...