Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talent agency, CAA represents many of the top stars. Now you have agreed to advise Credit Lyonnais, the French bank that effectively controls MGM. Isn't it a blatant conflict of interest to advise a studio while representing movie stars, directors and writers who seek work at studios...
...advising MGM. I'm advising a bank that holds a major stake in MGM, that has loaned $3.1 billion to various entertainment companies and wants to rethink its entertainment investment strategy...
...Jeff Berg, who runs International Creative Management, your principal competitor, says it is not legal for you to receive compensation from MGM or any other studio while representing talent...
...fighting for the sake of the good ol' US of A, then a message of racial unity had to be played up in numerous wartime morale-boosting movies. More diverse images of Blacks proliferated in Hollywood--major studios even made Black cast movies of their own (i.e. MGM's "Cabin in the Sky" (1943) directed by Vincent Minelli and starring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Ethel Waters)--so the independent race movie makers were squeezed out of the market, unable to compete with the slickness and polish of higher budget Hollywood films...
...possible that the son of a notorious failure had a more than usual need to succeed. It is possible that the son-in-law of the mighty head of mighty MGM had one or two things to prove to his tough, smart, neurotic wife, not to mention ever cynical Hollywood. But as Thomson shows, Selznick cannot be pickled in conventional psychological wisdom...