Just a few moments ago, I finished watching installment six of TCM's interesting, "A History of Hollywood- Moguls and Movie Stars." Tonight was all about the 1950s and the collapse of the movie studios as we'd known them. Getting quite close to the end, the show mentioned rock & roll and teenagers. Roger Corman had a few things to say about his movie making at the time. The critic, Leonard Maltin was saying that there'd always been lone wolves, mavericks, what we now all know as independent film makers. The narrator, Christopher Plummer then mentions Samuel Arkoff and James Nicholson, the men that formed American International Pictures, a studio that catered to that large, teenage audience. The photo you see above is what one saw as Christopher spoke. Immediately I laughed. I thought, why the fuck is there a photo of Ferrante and Teicher? Instantly I knew I was wrong. Then thought, wait a minute, am I learning something I'd never known? Something else to rival Marion Davies' rosebud? No. Some yutz who put this documentary together probably couldn't come up with a photo of Arkoff & Nicholson and found this delightful shot of Sandler and Young and figured, ah, who'll know the diff.
Obviously they underestimated the 'mo portion of the viewing public.
ReplyDeleteNever underestimate, just don't do it.
ReplyDeleteI watched too. I wish I had been paying more attention to that part.
ReplyDeleteI watched too but was distracted by one of the houseboys mooning me.
ReplyDeleteif robert osbourne were one of your houseboys,
ReplyDeleteyour eyes would've been locked on that television.