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...Before Television, studios followed the Ben Hur route: General Lew Wallace wrote the book, it became a bestseller, MGM bought the property and transformed it into big box office. In the decades A.T., film companies learned to acquire novels before publication-particularly if the author was a known quantity, like Irving Wallace or Jacqueline Susann. Publishers also learned to produce prose spin-offs-novelizations of hit movies. The current flood includes Alien, The Rose and Star Wars...
While the gaming tables at the MGM-Grand Hotel in Reno pulled in about $65 million last year, someone was busy trying to improve the house take on liquor sales. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms charges that between May 1978 and July 1979, 16,000 bottles of liquor were refilled with cheaper booze; not only that, but unmixed drinks served in the Ziegfeld showroom were recycled. Any liquor left untouched after patrons had ogled the floor show went back into the bottle for the next customer. Some of the drinks wound up with more mileage on them...
With the help of friend and mentor Producer Daniel Melnick, her rise has been little short of meteoric. By 1975 she was an executive story editor at MGM, and two years later vice president of production for Columbia Pictures. Aside from intelligence and raven-haired beauty, Lansing's prime asset is her youth, at least according to Fox Vice Chairman Alan Hirschfield, her former Columbia boss, who hired her. Says he: "The movie audience is still trending down in age; 60% of it is between the ages of 14 and 24. Sherry can attract the younger creative moviemakers...
Movie music should ideally act as an 'emotional constipator or cathartic" to enhance the creation and release of dramatic tension, John Green '28, former director of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), last night told an audience of about 50 people...
Green defended the "Hollywood Sound" he created by calling it "simply the incredible concentration of virtuoso musicians, orchestrators, composers and conductors at MGM." He demonstrated its variety with contrasting soundtrack excerpts...