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...Tribune guaranteed attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...executives involved are in business with one or the other of the two stars. Sony is profiting from Cruise's Jerry Maguire. Universal has signed Travolta for Primary Colors. Paramount released Cruise's Mission: Impossible. MGM distributed the Travolta hit Get Shorty. Warner has a project with Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman...
...sounds like a nostalgic pastiche of great moments from the great MGM musicals of the 1940s and '50s, and it would probably be O.K. with Woody Allen if a lot of people out beyond his cult took to Everyone Says I Love You on just that simple level. But we've left out the song-and-dance routine he stages in a hospital corridor. And the novelty number in the funeral parlor. And the fact that the streets through which his people hoof and warble Tin Pan Alley chestnuts are not glamourized back-lot representations of New York City...
Hollywood has flirted with the poet since its infancy; this week the American Film Institute is showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...
...well-regarded Calley, 66, succeeds Alan Levine, who was forced out two weeks ago. Besides releasing hits such as Birdcage and Goldeneye at UA, Calley gussied it up, along with sister MGM, for sale to financier Kirk Kerkorian. That sparked speculation that Sony may want Calley to sell or find a partner for its own studios...