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...fucking turned chalk-white like the desert away from his logical climactic image earth-to a more conventional wide-angle pull-back of dozens of lovers dotting the landscape. Antonioni cuts to three panoramic long shots of desert terrain. The third shows: Mark and Daria in the distance. Before MGM removed it from the prints, Mark said full-voiced on the soundtrack. "I always knew it would be like this." With the Open Theatre love scene directly before, the line was a howler. Antonioni claims it referred specifically to the desert, and the nature of the establishing shots confirms that...
...American College Dictionary (since the accent is on youth) defines obscene as: "offensive to modesty and decency," which is how Mr. James Aubrey characterizes the love scenes between Burt Lancaster and myself [Feb. 9], in an obvious reference to The Gypsy Moths, an MGM film that predates his assumption of supreme power in Culver City...
...established stars must face up to other adjustments, too, with the industry's new orientation toward youth. "The older stars are going to have to play older roles if they want to work with us," says MGM President James Aubrey. "We can't make a picture with I Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr groping with each other any more. That's obscene. It's like watching a couple of grandparents pawing each other." That even goes for Liz Taylor...
What Holidays? If any single man personifies the violent change in Hollywood, it is Aubrey, who in October became MGM's third president in eleven months. They called him "the Smiling Cobra" when he was president of CBS-TV from 1959 to 1965, and at MGM he is to be the new broom-or ax. The company he took over was in paralysis after three years of proxy battles and within four weeks was to report the $35 million loss for 1969. Part of that deficit, though, was accounted for by the cancellation of 15 films in progress that...
...right place." Translation: until they learn to operate within lower budgets. Aubrey's commitments include the next two Beatles pictures, one on groupies, plus an adaptation of Abbie Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It. To reach the kids, Aubrey plans to shift the emphasis of MGM promotion efforts and advertising from standard newspapers to underground weeklies and radio...