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Describing Kissinger's post-operative recovery as "routine" and "straightforward," Dr. Roman DeSanctis, chief of cardiac serious at MGM, said yesterday, "Any Complications are unexpected. His heart achieved beautifully after the operation...
...show!" That cheerful brainstorm, brimming with optimism, was a staple of MGM's old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland movies. It was that same bubbly spirit of all-American teamwork, given a righteous edge, that prompted the Reagan Administration to put on a television special called Let Poland Be Poland. The 90-minute program was produced by the Government's International Communication Agency at a cost of more than $350,000, mostly corporate donations. It was scheduled to be broadcast early this week by local Public Broadcasting Service outlets. As many as 50 foreign countries (including Senegal, with...
There is some dispute over who owns One From the Heart. According to one source, Coppola may have sold the film to Paramount without having bought it back from MGM, its previous distributor. Lawyers from Paramount and Zoetrope are also haggling over the contract. Did Paramount renege by not paying Zoetrope $1.6 million in "completion money"? Did Coppola lose his claim by going too far over the shooting schedule? The maestro maintained that these details do not matter: "There is no battle as far as I'm concerned. I'm just trying to give people the excitement...
These financial marriages were only a small part of the record-breaking flurry of matchmaking that swept through U.S. business this year. American companies spent an estimated $80 billion to acquire some 2,200 other firms. The mergers linked familiar names in virtually every industry: Nabisco and Standard Brands MGM and United Artists, Allied Store and Garfinckel, Brooks Brothers...
...strong personality. Visually too Pennies is of two minds: Ken Adam's precisely gaudy sets need megawatt illumination, but Cinematographer Gordon Willis keeps most of the lighting as morose as a coal miner's funeral. Perhaps this was not the project on which to lavish so many MGM millions. The BBC show was an enchanted cottage; this is the Las Vegas Grand Hotel...