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ALL EDITIONS Grand Hotel: Looking back at the glory of MGM VUrtAx, 25. 1)71 Tfce Arizen RrpibUc V7 wherever I happen to be appearing. I always wait for one of the old. great MGM musicals. It's very saddening to know that no more of these are going to be made under BEE ment.

With nightclubs closing around the country, here's another chance for performers to work. I feel very badly that the money had to be taken out of Hollywood to support this venture. But I hope that once the hotel gets on its feet, the owners will take part of their profits and reinvest them back into the picture industry. UstefuL I hope they give him an opportunity to function. "ThaUs Entertainment" should 'make a fortune.

That MGM library is really valuable. Maybe the Grand Hotel will make money; maybe it'll be an extraordinary investment; maybe it'll be possible to make many more movies from 1976-79. Maybe it'll be the smartest thing MGM ever did." Wayne Newton: I see the whole question as a two-sided coin. While the studio was closed down in Los Angeles, over 3,000 people are being employed by the hotel. The MGM stockholders ho took a loss are getting another chance to recoup their invest heart to see it falling apart.

I don't think about the Grand Hotel. I have no idea if a boycott would be effective." Debbie Reynolds: What makes me sad is not that the money's going to Vegas, but the fact that MGM is no longer. It was the most brilliant of all studios. It's very tragic; especially when you were raised at the studio, as I was. It's like going back to your old hometown and it's been torn down." Daniel Selznick: It's not the worst thing in the world to make fewer movies and release them through United Artists.

I'm a big personal supporter of studio chief Dan Melnick: he's literate and IIADIO 140 MM MM 111 IMO ISM mv DOT KOrt -Prog lack KSA-tMut IU 1M CUD 100 (CIY IIM 740 IIMVL 110 (M OU.t.MO 1310 tlO 40 Ul Hit I9IO OuX-To40 DM (TAl-AJ Nm KMtO KUJ-CMMly (CXX-dl KMC I a great array of stars under one roof in the firmament of Hollywood again. The glorious show business, as we all knew it, has come to an end. But I do feel that there will be a resurgence. It will probably come from cable television and home rideo tape cassettes. Nancy Sinatra I keep thinking about my child hating to be told that things like studios existed.

When I worked at MGM on the Presley picture the whole place was. jumping. When my dad was rehearsing there for his TV special with Gene Kelly it had an empty, lonely feeling. "I was offered a job at the Grand Hotel and refused itT We said absolutely not. I know Kerkorian is going to sell out.

I make a bet he'll sell within six months of opening. The rumor all over Las Vegas is that the entire management of the hotel will go like "a bloodbath. I don't know for sure, but the rumor is everywhere." Liberace: I think the end of FM STEREO FM STEREO EM STEREO OOMM tOO 7 MC IHlr-FM 101. SMC (Nil FM 10 SMC MUZFM 104.7 MC CMCt-M tl.SMC UTC4M MC KOKMM MC COOUM 04.SMC (OfW FM SJMC IMfO FW WC ufo trtwc UtC-FM I7MC HP" By JOYCE HABEK Les Aigelrs Times Service HOLLYWOOD It has been said before. Gone are the image makers the Irving Thalbergs and Louis B.

Mayers, the Harry Cohns. David Selznicks, Jack Warners. Darryl Zanucks and Adolph Zukors. The casting couch and the riding crop have given way to group sex and slide rule. The artist or film-making is today the new realist punching buttons to light his neon signs for hotels in Las Vegas and marquees at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.

L. B. Mayer earned as head of MGM in 1942. James T. Aubrey, who resigned as Metro's president less than three weeks ago, earned $200,000 per year.

But Kirk Kerkorian was and is the boss of MGM through his Tracinda Investment Co. And Kerkorian started selling off Metro three years ago with an auction of memorabilia such as the late Judy Garland's ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" ($15,000) and Katharine Hepburn's nightgown from "Little Women" (under $100). Next year, he sold the 68-acre lot 3 where Mary Astor romped in "Meet Me in St. Louis." Last year, lot 2 38.7 acres went under the gavel. Just recently, MGM dipsosed of its domestic and foreign dis-trubution, including its theaters and frozen moneys abroad.

Most of the cash flowed not back into pictures, but into a mammoth Las the great MGM banner. It's similar to the Titanic rolling over on its side. Actors have always been a selfreliant breed of people. It is the technicians I feel sorry for. Where are they going to go? Jean Crawferd: It's like everything else that's happened to Hollywood: it's the end of an era.

I'm sure that, like the rest of America, hen I think of Gable I think of him as still alive. Metro gave us our training and a wonderful way to spend our youth. Las Vegas is a wonderful city, and I love the people in it. But the money from the hotel and casino should go right back into the movie business. A boycott is just stupidity." Fred Astaire: The fact that the studio is no longer hat it once was does not make me sad.

I had a great time there and enjoyed it as I've enjoyed almost every place I've ever worked. But I don't have nostalgia hangups like some people. I don't have sloppy feelings. It's been proved that there's no need today for a big permament establishment. Great movies can be made today without the great studio.

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Camel-back Phoenix -277-5711 been averted by releasing some of their epics and supermusicals. It worked in the past with "Gone With The Wind" and others. There's a whole new generation that has never seen early MGM movies. Like Las Vegas itself, the Grand Hotel is a big gamble. But the odds of the hotel making it are in their favor.

I've been playing Vegas since 1944, so I am one of the early pioneers. I am now under a two-year, 2 million (M) dollar contract to the Las Vegas Hilton. After that, I'm open to any offer from the highest bidder. June Allyson: I grew up at Metro. It just breaks my Ricardo Montalban: I don't believe we will ever see such NEW SUNDAY HOURS: 11 to 6 Phoenix, Scottsdale Sears Sal Start Nov.

25 End Nov. 27 at Photnix, Scott-dale, Msa Vegas hotel and casino. "THE ROAR OF Leo the Lion will not be reduced to a weak meow." promised new president Frank Rosenfelt several weeks ago, just before the invitations went out for the very grand opening of Tracind's Grand Hotel: the "invitation" is a costly (even at wholesale) reproduction of a walking, not roaring. Lion. MGM is the consummate example of what's happening to Hollywood.

Look at the other studios. Gulf and Western owns Paramount and racetracks in Chicago, Transamerica owns United Artists and the Lyon Van and Storage Co. MCA owns Universal, tours of our nation's capital and all the land in north Hollywood apart from Bob Hope's. Kinney owns Warner's and every parking lot in town except MGM. Will MGM go on making movies? Time will tell.

But sentiment runs high in Hollywood over what's left of ii i El II I 1 I I KAET-TV PBS, Channel 8 7:30 Mister Roger 8:00 Sesame Street 9:00 Sesame Street 10:00 Sesame Street 11:00 Mister Rogers 11:30 Sports 70s 1:30 Cinema Classics 4:00 War Peace 6:00 Silent Films 7:00 Zoom 7:30 ASU Highlights 8:00 Men Made Movies 9:00 Masterpiece Theater 10:00 Wall Street Week 10:30 Kup's Show 1' 1 i i i a 4 I 1 i ri law Movie notes By A. H. WEILER New York Times Service NEW YORK, Robert Alt-man, the director of the hit adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, "The Long Goodbye," is ready to tackle three new film projects. The first, he disclosed from Hollywood, will be "California Split," a first script by a former actor, Joe Walsh, that deals with two gamblers who eventually part company in Las Vegas "It's essentially a happy story," Altman said, "that is more concerned with their relationship and the atmosphere of the gambler's world than it is with gambling. George Segal probably will play one of those guys.

We should start filming for Columbia early this spring." "Nashville," an original script by Joan Tewkesbury, ill probably follow it is a sort of "Grand Hotel" of the country and western music scene that will be shot in Nashville with a cast of un knowns. Finally, there is "Ninety. Two in the Shade," Thomas McGuane's novel about the adventures of a tragicomic hero in Key West. "McGuane has practically completed the script and we could start shooting, with Elliot Kastner producing, late this Altman said. Now that "Hurry Up.

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They're cithor in the picture business or the hotel business. Other companies are keeping their heads aboe water. I think they have to give that extra ounce and try harder. They pay obscene prices in Las Vegas. Let's face it, Mitzi Gaynor hasn't made a picture since year one.

I don't think boycotting Vegas would do any good. Las Vegas is like a giant magnet. And the pity is that many people in the United States are seeking entertainment. Metro can do it; they did it better than anyone else ever did it." Sammy Davis When I am looking at late-night TV ed for gS fei sion speaker system, a gift that will be cherish years to come. No Monthly Payment Until February on Sears Defe SK-60 Cassettes, now 99c SK-90 Cassettes, now $1.29 CrO2 120 in stock prices from $2.29 Quantity discount available on all tapes, 10 tor 12, 15 for 50 or mora.

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