Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streak of madness in the Selznick line (one brother, Myron, a legendary Hollywood agent, died of alcoholism; another was institutionalized for many years). But in David's case it looked at first like genius. He was head of production at RKO at 30, had his own unit at MGM a year later, his own company four years after that. And he oversaw some of his best pictures in that period: King Kong, David Copperfield and a terrific movie about moviemakers, What Price Hollywood?, self-knowing, self-satirizing. Along the way, Selznick married the & boss of all boss's daughters, Irene...
...airline would be allowed to function as one company. KLM and NW will consolidate their fleets, fare structures and sales forces. But the merger may be too little, too late for financially troubled NW, which is struggling to avoid bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the U.S. airline industry remains a dangerous battleground. MGM Grand Air, a three-year-old luxury carrier, withdrew from scheduled passenger service last week after it failed to stem financial losses...
...animation, this is a Golden Age. Not since the 1940s -- with Pinocchio and Dumbo from Walt Disney and the great cartoon shorts by Tex Avery at MGM and by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones at Warner Bros. -- has the form been so commercially successful and artistically exhilarating. Moreover, at a time when mass art is fragmented, even divisive -- when virtually no species of entertainment has universal appeal -- the hip, comic ingenuity and emotional breadth of the best cartoons reunite the consumers of popular culture with Hollywood's surest instinct to please in a vast Saturday matinee of the spirit...
...CRAZY for musicals, says, "When I was little, I used to watch all the big shows. The music! And the lights!" And her chipper beau effuses, "Just imagine this theater -- giving it a whole new life!" The sentiments belong to Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in some Edenic MGM % musical. But the words come from Crazy for You, the 1992 Tony winner for Best Musical...
...allowed to burst into song, along comes Newsies, an old style, live-action musical from Disney. Yet if Newsies is any indication, it would probably be a better idea for Disney to leave the singing to cartoon characters. For the film's attempt to fuse the spirit of classic MGM musicals with a message about workers' solidarity hardly goes beyond the limits of innocent...