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Thereafter, crime dramas, shipboard romances, even westerns were adopted by the new art form. The results were often ludicrous but invariably profitable. To survive, almost every studio learned to experiment with musicals, but no company ever duplicated the burnish and exuberance of the MGM product. The proof can be found in That's Entertainment!, a two-hour retrospective backed by the current owners of MGM. These are operators who have converted studio real estate and properties into the MGM Grand Hotel, a Las Vegas monument to brashness and vulgarity. Still, if they are contemptuous of the future, they...
...with Bill Buckley vowel attenuation-drama is his element. The wonder is that his own acting career failed. In fitting Old Hollywood style, he was "discovered" by Norma Shearer by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Shearer decided that Evans was the man to play her late husband, MGM Producer Irving Thalberg, in the film Man of a Thousand Faces. Evans has since been compared to Thai-berg many tunes, but as an actor he was to get nowhere...
...Wizard of Oz (1939): Now, isn't it about time that some good, clean, family entertainment appeared on television? Actually, this is the Wizard's 16th incarnation. Some trivia: When editing the film in 1939, MGM executives decided to drop the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" number. Too sentimental, they said; slows down the film. Lyricist E.Y. Harburg talked them out of it. Aren't you glad? Ch. 4, 6:30 p.m. Color (except for the scenes in Kansas), 2 hours...
...what amounts to a collage education (or reeducation) in film history. In the good old, bad old days, studios were often criticized for trying to imitate one another's successes, thereby creating tedious cycles. This time, however, the competition should be encouraged to follow Warner Brothers' lead. MGM, come on! Paramount, let's hear from you! Richard Schickel
Governor Ray is pondering Bobbie's plight. As his press secretary Dick Gelbert explains: "The Governor has no power to extend sentences; he can only commute or pardon or parole." But the publicity aroused by Bobbie's letter may eventually get him what he wants. MGM has even considered doing a movie or TV show about his life, a project Bobbie thought he would like...