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...liked were doing [theater]" in high school. And he only pursued it as a career because he despised school too much to follow up his high SATs. So the drifting head went to California, smoking weed and politicking his way up from a mail clerk job by greeting MGM execs by their first name...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...group of refugees from a fancy Dungeons & Dragons tournament? Nope, just James Mason, Olivia Hussey, Anthony Andrews and Lysette Anthony in period garb for the CBS-TV movie Ivanhoe, due to air in February. The Sir Walter Scott novel of religious prejudice inspired the 1952 MGM classic with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. Olivia must now contend with the memory of Liz's smoldering Rebecca, but she doesn't want to hear about Ol' Lavender Eyes. Huffs Hussey: "I don't follow in anyone's footsteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 2, 1981 | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...voluminous-at least for protecting high-rises. The law does not adequately take into account the combustibility of new plastics that fill modern office towers, or the toxicity of their combustion products-factors that are now thought responsible for the ferocity of the fireball that swept through the MGM Grand Hotel last November, killing 84 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Burning Issues | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...squandering proceeds apace. In 1939 MGM spent $1.2 million to make The Wizard of Oz; in 1981 Orion Pictures has devoted $17 million to a modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...recall Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming scene in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, will be forced to make do with a little Bo peek. Meanwhile Hollywood is happy to have another scandale on its hands. "Well, well, well," drawled one director working on the MGM lot, " Junglegate.'' -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Tarzan Goes to Court | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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