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...MGM has announced it is quitting the Motion Picture Association of America, under whose aegis the rating board operates. MGM President James Aubrey describes the code as "confusing and impractical." New York Theater Owner Walter Reade calls it "our Volstead Act" and wishes it the same end. There are even defectors from the censors' ranks. Stephen Farber, 27, a film critic who quit the board after a stormy six months, says, "Pubic hair and breasts, that's what they're worried about...
...which the novel's central figure was a movie cameraman. (The only boat Latham misses on this score is The Beautiful and the Damned , where Joseph Bloeckman, a self-made movie entrepreneur, hints of such later Fitzgerald heroes as Gatsby and Monroe Stahr, the tycoon Hollywood producer drawn from MGM "boy genius" Irving Thalberg...
...your only chances to see Lylah Clare, even though this picture dates back only to 1968. Robert Aldrich (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte) financed this film from the profits of his immensely successful Dirty Dozen, probably because no studio would put up the money; MGM finally distributed the movie-but Lylah died a quick critical and box-office death, thereby insuring its banishment to quadruple bill drive-ins during leap years. It's a shame, for this saga of Hollywood is one of the most personal and intriguing American films of the past three years...
...reckoning. On the other side of the ledger, 15 industries increased profits last year, though most of the rises were moderate. The only spectacular gain was a 145% jump in earnings for 33 amusement companies, in fields like movies, racetracks and bowling. The gain largely reflected the fact that MGM had heavy writeoffs...
...MGM lion accepting all this without a whimper or white? you ask. Sutherland gestures towards the press agent. "Ask him," he says. (And naturally the press agent smiles, shakes his head in agreement, immediately directs the conversation back towards Sutherland.) "So long as I occasionally talk about Ale?." Sutherland adds...