Word: zelsmith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Zelsmith, film producer, is on the skids. It is years since he won his last Academy Award. His marriage is heading for the breakers while he guzzles Scotch on the rocks. Fed up with Mike's arty epics and domestic antics, his movie magnate father-in-law cuts off his bank credit. The Hollywood gripevine says that Mike Zelsmith, whom "even intellectuals respect," is about to make his first "quickie," a $300,000 thriller...
...etchings and reads Bernard Shaw, has "an ego as big as a horse . . . the loud ego of genius, real genius." Raking together the cash and crew to shoot the picture, he explains to his scriptwriter how he intends "to sneak in the truth" and make it the kind of Zelsmith Production people respect: "I give them the sex and the brawl, but also a little of the ache and the agony of life. The lousy beauty of it, the crummy pleasures of kids and family life, and art shots and a pain in the heart...
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