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...over by better organized competitors. Thomson hints at a streak of madness in the Selznick line (one brother, Myron, a legendary Hollywood agent, died of alcoholism; another was institutionalized for many years). But in David's case it looked at first like genius. He was head of production at RKO at 30, had his own unit at MGM a year later, his own company four years after that. And he oversaw some of his best pictures in that period: King Kong, David Copperfield and a terrific movie about moviemakers, What Price Hollywood?, self-knowing, self-satirizing. Along the way, Selznick...
...right he was. More than any other great director, Welles suffered a career of fits and starts: he would start a film, and then his niggly investors would give him fits. (The ill feeling was mutual.) In Hollywood, Welles was effectively banished by his early 30s. RKO Radio Pictures chopped The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles' brilliant follow-up to Kane, by a third (from 131 min. to 88), ordered a new ending shot by a different director and even sent Ambersons out as the bottom half of a double feature, in support of Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost. Republic Pictures...
During the forties, Val Newton of RKO Pictures produced a series of romantic, moody horror movies that relied on shadows in the dark--and not pools of blood--to scare its audience...
Fifty years ago last week, Hollywood was the home of the avant garde. RKO released an experimental film made by a 25-year-old novice who didn't know the rules, didn't care when his studio elders said, "You can't do that!" Outrageous, iconoclastic, with warning shadows and baroque camera angles, Citizen Kane told future moviemakers that anything was possible. If you were Orson Welles...
...bones home theater costs $400 for the A/V box, $700 for a stereo TV, $800 or more for a laser videodisc player and upwards of $1,500 for a five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry to hide the equipment. A glossy...