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...killed. The many interviews that comprise two-thirds of the book share in common a true nostalgia for physical pain, for the ordeals involved in creating motion pictures honestly, unhampered by union restrictions, production supervision, and general professional laziness. Many statements, among them Nancy Carroll's memoir of shooting MGM's The Water Hole in the heart of Death Valley (the casualty rate approaching Stroheim's for Greed, the most famous horror story of Death Valley's filming), suggest strongly that the first American film-makers willingly demanded a verisimilitude unknown to most of today's artists. Brownlow quotes...
...shadows and surface not nearly so nice and smooth as plasterer Super Plaster Man intended with infallible carpenter level bubble ... not so foolproof as you thought bub, little lumps and ridges up there and lines ... like spines on crests of waves of white desert movie sand each one with MGM shadow longshot of the ominous A-rab coming up over the next crest for only the sinister Saracen can see the road and you don't know how many subplots you left up there Plaster Man, trying to smooth it "all" out ... with your carpenter's level ... to make...
...other groups and labels are cashing in on the same market, including the Cowsills on MGM (Indian Lake) and Manfred Mann on Mercury (My Name Is Jack). But Buddah and Bogart hold the original charter. "We are giving kids something to identify with that is clean, fresh and happy," Bogart says. "Let them worry about the world's problems when they get older...
Powell's progress from jazz to the avant-garde followed an improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with...
...spite of the mythical concept of the existence of a spirit known as the Boston Sound (a promotion idea by MGM records), Boston is a very hard town for groups to play. The Boston area doesn't have a very large population; and that population isn't used to paying money to be entertained at night. The city closes down very early...