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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Article by hi joiney
Overview The studio s official motto Ars Gratia Artis is a Latin phrase meaning Art for art s sake It was chosen by Howard Dietz the studio s chief publicist in 1924 The studio s logo is a roaring lion surrounded by a circle inscribed with the studio s motto The logo which features Leo the Lion was created by Dietz in 1916 for Goldwyn Pictures and updated in 1924 for MGM s use Dietz based the logo on his alma mater s mascothe Columbia University lion Originally silent the sound of Leo the Lion s roar was added to films for the first time in August 1928 The studio s informal motto is more stars than there are in heaven a reference to the large number of A list movie stars under contract to the company in the 1930s This second motto was also coined by Deitz and was probably first used in 1932 The METRO GOLDWYN MAYER name was first used in 1924 and was officially granted trademark registration in 1961 It was renewed in 2001 From the end of the silent film era through World War II Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood It responded slowly to the changing legal economic and demographic nature of the motion picture industry during the 1950s and 1960s and although at times its films did well at the box office the studio lost significant amounts of money throughout the 1960s Edgar Bronfman Sr purchased a controlling interest in MGM in 1966 and was briefly chairman of the board in 1969 and in 1967 Time Inc became the company s second largest shareholder In 1969 Kirk Kerkorian purchased 40 percent of MGM from Bronfman and Time Inc slashed staff and production costs forced the studio to produce low budget fare and then shut down production permanently in 1973 The studio continued to distribute films under its name however and resumed production of its own motion pictures in 1980 MGM attempted to rebuild its production capacity in 1981 by purchasing United Artists along with its lucrative James Bond film franchise It also incurred significant amounts of debt in order to increase production The studio took on additional debt as a series of owners took charge in the 1980s and early 1990s On August 5 1986 Ted Turner s Turner Broadcasting System purchased MGM in a cash stock deal for 1 5 billion Turner immediately sold MGM s United Artists subsidiary back to Kerkorian But unable to find financing for the rest of the deal Turner sold MGM s film and distribution business back to Kerkorian just 74 days after the original purchase was made The MGM lot and lab facilities were sold to Lorimar Telepictures Turner kept the pre 1986 library of MGM films along with pre 1950 Warner Bros and RKO Pictures films which MGM had previously purchased The series of deals left MGM even more heavily in debt In 1989 Australian based Qintex attempted to buy MGM from Kerkorian but the deal collapsed MGM was bought by Path Communications led by Italian publishing magnate Giancarlo Parretti in 1990 but Parretti lost control of Path and defaulted on the loans used to purchase the studio French banking conglomerate Credit Lyonnais the studio s major creditor then took control of MGM Even more deeply in debt MGM was purchased by Australia s Seven Network in 1996 MGM purchased Metromedia s film subsidiaries Orion Pictures The Samuel Goldwyn Company and the Motion Picture Corporation of America for 573 million in 1997 and Kerkorian bought out Seven Network the following year MGM used debt to acquire Polygram Filmed Entertainment s 1 300 title library from Seagram in 1999 for 250 million and obtained the broadcast rights to more than 800 of its films previously licensed to Turner Broadcasting MGM then purchased 20 percent of Cablevision Systems for 825 million in 2001 MGM attempted to take over Universal Studios in 2003 but failed and was forced to sell several of its cable channel investments taking a 75 million loss on the deal The debt load from these business deals negatively affected MGM s ability to survive as an independent motion picture studio After a three way bidding war which involved Time Warner successor to Time Inc and current parent of Turner Broadcasting and General Electric MGM was acquired on September 23 2004 by a partnership led by Sony Corporation of America Comcast Texas Pacific Group now TPG Capital L P Providence Equity Partners and other investors MGM Mirage a Las Vegas based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MGM is not currently affiliated with Metro Goldwyn Mayer History Foundation In 1924 movie theater magnate Marcus Loew bought Metro Pictures Corporation founded in 1916 and Goldwyn Pictures founded in 1917 to provide a steady supply of films for his large theater chain Loew s Theatres However these purchases created a need for someone to oversee his new Hollywood operations since longtime assistant Nicholas Schenck was needed in New York to oversee the theaters Loew addressed the situation by buying Mayer Pictures on April 16 1924 Because of his decade long success as a producer Louis B Mayer was made a vice president of Loew s and head of studio operations in California with Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg as heads of production For decades MGM was listed on movie title cards as Controlled by Loew s Inc Originally the new studio s films were presented in the following manner Louis B Mayer presents a Metro Goldwyn picture but Mayer soon added his name to the studio Though Loew s Metro was the dominant partner the new studio inherited Goldwyn s studios in Culver City California the former Goldwyn mascot Leo the Lion which replaced Metro s parrot symbol and the corporate motto Ars Gratia Artis Art for Art s Sake Also inherited from Goldwyn was a runaway production Benur which had been filming in Rome for months at great cost Mayer scrapped most of what had been shot and relocated production to Culver City Though Benur was the most costly film made up to its time it became MGM s first great public relations triumph establishing an image for the company that persisted for years Also in 1925 with the success of both The Big Parade and Benur MGM passed Universal Studios as the largest studio in Hollywood Marcus Loew died in 1927 and control of Loew s passed to his longtime associate Nicholas Schenck William Fox of Fox Film Corporation in 1929 with Schenck s assent bought the Loew family s holdings Mayer and Thalberg disagreed with the decision Mayer used political connections to persuade the Justice Department to take action against the deal on federal antitrust grounds During this time in the summer of 1929 Fox was badly hurt in an automobile accident By the time he recovered the stock market crash in the fall of 1929 had ended any chance of the Loew s merger going through Schenck and Mayer had never gotten along and the abortive Fox merger increased the animosity between the two men MGM s golden age From the outset MGM tapped into the audience s need for glamour and sophistication Having inherited few big names from their predecessor companies Mayer and Thalberg began at once to create and publicize a host of new stars among them Greta Garbo John Gilbert William Haines Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford Established names like Lon Chaney William Powell Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery were hired from other studios They also hired top directors such as King Vidor Clarence Brown Erich von Stroheim Tod Browning and Victor Seastrom The arrival of talking pictures in 192829 gave opportunities to other new stars many of whom would carry MGM through the 1930s Clark Gable Jean Harlow Robert Montgomery Myrna Loy Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy among them MGM was one of the first studios to experiment with filming in Technicolor Using the two color Technicolor process then available MGM filmed portions of The Uninvited Guest 1923 The Big Parade 1925 and Benur 1925 among others in the process In 1928 MGM released The Viking the first complete Technicolor feature with sound including a synchronized score and sound effects but no spoken dialogue MGM s first all color all talking sound feature with dialogue was the 1930 musical The Rogue Song In 1934 MGM included a sequence made in Technicolor s superior new three color process a musical number in the otherwise black and white The Cat and the Fiddle The studio then produced a number of three color short subjects including 1935 s musical La Fiesta de Santa Barbara however MGM waited until 1938 to film a complete feature in the process Sweethearts with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy the earlier of the popular singing team s two films in color From then on MGM regularly produced several films a year in Technicolor The Wizard of Oz and Northwest Passage being two of the most notable MGM also released the enormously successful Technicolor film Gone with the Wind starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler Although Gone With the Wind was produced by Selznick International Pictures it was released by MGM as part of a deal for producer David O Selznick to obtain the services of Clark Gable However the film being a Selznick International production begins with that company s logo rather than the usual MGM roaring lion In addition to a large short subjects program of its own MGM also released the shorts and features produced by Hal Roach Studios including comedy shorts starring Laurel and Hardy Our Gang and Charley Chase MGM s distribution deal with Roach lasted from 1927 to 1938 and MGM benefited in particular from the success of the popular Laurel and Hardy films In 1938 MGM purchased the intellectual clarification needed rights to Our Gang and moved the production in house continuing production of the successful series of children s comedies until 1944 From 1929 to 1931 MGM produced a series of comedy shorts called All Barkie Dogville Comedies in which trained dogs were dressed up to parody contemporary films and were voiced by actors One of the shorts The Dogway Melody 1930 spoofed MGM s hit 1929 musical Broadway Melody MGM produced fifty pictures a year Loew s theaters were mostly located in New York and the Northeastern United States although Gone With the Wind had its world premiere at the Loew s Grand in Atlanta Georgia so MGM made films that were sophisticated and polished to cater to an urban audience As the Great Depression deepened MGM could make a claim its rivals could not it never lost money although it did have an occasional disaster like Parnell 1937 Clark Gable s biggest flop It was the only Hollywood studio that continued to pay dividends during the 1930s MGM stars dominated the box office in the 30s and the studio was credited for inventing the Hollywood star system as well MGM contracted with The American Musical Academy of Arts Association now the International Academy of Music Arts and Sciences to handle all of their press and artist development The AMAAA s main function was to develop the budding stars and to make them appealing to the public Stars like Norma Shearer Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo all reigned as not only the top three figures at the studio but in Hollywood itself Garbo started losing her American audience after Queen Christina 1933 as a contract dispute kept her out of Hollywood for two years and other MGM sex symbol actress Jean Harlow now had a big break and became one of MGM s most admired stars as well despite Jean Harlow s gain Garbo still was a big star for MGM after she returned from her absence Shearer was still a top money maker despite screen appearances becoming scarce and Joan Crawford continued her box office power up until 1937 MGM would also receive a boost through the man who would become the King of Hollywood Clark Gable Gable s career took off to new heights after he won an Oscar for the 1934 Columbia film It Happened One Night By 1943 all three had left the studio Joan Crawford moved to Warner Bros where her career took a dramatic upturn for the better Shearer and Garbo never made another film after leaving MGM Mayer and Irving Thalberg s relationship was lukewarm at best Thalberg preferred literary works to the crowd pleasers Mayer wanted Thalberg always physically frail was removed as head of production in 1932 Mayer encouraged other staff producers among them his son in law David O Selznick but no one seemed to have the sure touch of Thalberg As Thalberg fell increasingly ill in 1936 Louis Mayer could now serve as his temporary replacement Rumors flew that Thalberg was leaving to set up his own independent company his early death in 1936 at age thirty seven cost MGM dearly As a result of Thalberg s death Mayer became head of production as well as studio chief becoming the first million dollar executive in American history The company remained profitable although a change toward series pictures Andy Hardy Maisie the Thin Man pictures et al is seen by some as evidence of Mayer s restored influence Also playing a huge role was Ida Koverman Mayer s right hand woman Increasingly before and during World War II Mayer came to rely on his College of Cardinals enior producers who controlled the studio s output This management by committee may explain why MGM seemed to lose its momentum developing few new stars and relying on the safety of sequels and bland material Dorothy Parker memorably referred to it as Metro Goldwyn Merde Production values remained high and even B pictures carried a polish and gloss that made them expensive to mount and artificial in tone After 1940 production was cut from fifty pictures a year to a more manageable twenty five features per year It was during this time that MGM released very successful musicals with players such as Judy Garland Fred Astaire Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra to name just a few As audiences drifted away after the war MGM found it difficult to attract audiences While other
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2011 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition
Article by Pushpitha Wijesinghe
Macau acts an important gateway to South East Asia and China. This historically entrenched city is located in the Chinese province of Guangdong. With an economy founded on services and tourists, over 20 million visitors flock to this popular Asian destination. Many festivals and events dot Macau?s cultural calendar. The Arts and Music fiestas, Dragon boat and Marathon occasions, World Volleyball Championships to Formula One racing all provide riveting happenings.
Macau is also noted as a premier gaming destination. The amazing and opulent casinos bedecked in spectacular architectural designs leaves visitors in awe. Delectable cuisine including succulent seafood, cafes and cobblestone by-roads make this former Portugusean colony an interesting trip.
As a service oriented nation, Macau is renowned for its meeting facilities. As a location it is easily accessible offering international facilities and accommodation options. Its closeness to mainland China offers further impetus in blending commerce and cultures effortlessly. Venues for hosting private or public gatherings are numerous from boardroom to theatre styles.
Locals and international firms looking to host meeting and conferences have several options to select from. The Cultural Centre, the Tower Convention & Entertainment Centre and the East Asian Games Dome are just a few exciting venues for exhibitions and other gatherings.
An annual event that attracts decision and policy makers together with imminent industry and technology savvy individuals is the Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition. This conference provides a podium for discussion and dissertation on low carbon emissions and ecological urban development geared particularly towards South China.
The 2011 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition is billed to include imminent speakers attracting a global audience. Products and services featuring ?green? businesses are portrayed including the lasted developments in this sector. Another feature of this forum is the emphasis on services and solutions for the use and need to popularize sustainable energy sources. Affiliated products of green energy are touted with city planner and potential buyers given presentations.
A stupendous resort-hotel encompassing over 3000 suites is the The Venetian Macau Resort Hotel. As a luxury hotel in Macau it offers 6-star services including unmatched entertainment, shopping and dining facilities. This Macau China Hotel exudes the fascination of Las Vegas together with the eternal beauty of Venice.
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Pushpitha Wijesinghe is an experienced independent freelance writer. He specializes in providing a wide variety of content and articles related to the travel hospitality industry.
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Benidorm Theme Parks
Article by Nigel
Benidorm might not be everybody’s cup of tea but if you’re looking for all the attractions of a large scale resort then go there as there are none better. Five million visitors can’t be wrong. It’s a common myth that Benidorm is nothing but a load of British pubs attracting thousands of rowdy lager louts. Not true. Benidorm attracts visitors from all over Europe and is an extremely family orientated resort with something for everyone. In fact the most common language you’ll hear as you wander the streets is Spanish as the resort caters well for its own people.
Tourism dates back to the early 1960s when Benidorm was no more than a small fishing port centred on a domed church next to Plaza del Castillo. Today Plaza del Castillo is called Placa del Castell thanks to the growth of the Valencian language but the same old church remains on its rocky peninsula surrounded by an unbelievable number of hotels, apartment blocks, bars and restaurants that a visitor could be forgiven for believing they were in Las Vegas rather than on the coast of Spain. The tallest building is the Gran Hotel Bali at 186 metres.
The old church of San Jaime is an ideal spot from which to describe the geography of Benidorm as it is the heart of the old town which splits the resort into two parts. To the north is Playa Levante, a 2km long beach of golden sand with restricted traffic access along the promenade and the livelier of the resort’s two main beaches. To the south of the old town is Playa Poniente which is 3km in length, also has golden sand but is narrower with far fewer hotels and a road separating them from the beach.
As director of Spanish Fiestas I’ve travelled to pretty much everywhere in Spain so I’m familiar with what the brochures call “the Real Spain”. I had low expectations when going to Benidorm for a week to prepare this section of our website but was
completely wrong. I really enjoyed the place and highly recommend holidays in Benidorm for single people and families as well as to retired people who make up the majority of the foreign population during the winter months when some long stay bargains are on offer.
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