Word: rko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came to the TV page. Critics like Tom Shales, 33, of the Washington Post, and Marvin Kitman, 49, of Newsday, are masters of the lampoon. The new breed can also level their targets with sheer ferocity. One recent example from the Boston Globe's William A. Henry III: "RKO General has run Channel 7 with such greed, arrogance and contempt for the people of Boston that we all ought to stop watching...
...Future of Communications" President of RKO Radio in McCollum, Room 1, Business School...
...doubtless the appeal to his gaming instinct that caused him to enter into negotiations with RKO for rights to remake the original while rounding up a portion of his financing. Then in June 1975 Universal released Jaws. It was a picture about a giant creature, and it started producers -notably Universal-thinking about other big-animal properties, like Kong. Universal also entered into negotiations with RKO and thought they had a deal when the sale to Dino was suddenly announced. Hurt feelings-and lawsuits-ensued. Both sides advertised start-shooting dates of Jan. 15 of this year, thinking to scare...
...Fine Romance was composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields for the 1936 RKO film Swing Time, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
Liaisons did not necessarily mean love affairs. Before he became publicity-shy, Hughes knew how much mileage he could get from being seen with the right woman. Says Bill Feeder, who was director of RKO public relations when Hughes owned the studio: "Sex and showmanship were the same thing to him. The romance stories were a lot of baloney." Hughes spent plenty of time in public with his star Jean Harlow-but no time in private, according to people who knew them both. He was put off by the blonde bombshell's four-letter-word vocabulary. He explained earthily...