 | Douglas T. Miller, Marion Nowak - 1977 - 484 pages
...producer David Selznick in 1951. "Full of crumbling pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands." By the early fifties Hollywood's problems were very evident, particularly at the box office. From a... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...1991). 29 Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on 1914), Brilish politician. Speech, 12 May 1904, Birmingham. 5 The conquest of DAVID O. SELZNICK (1902-65). US film producer. Quoted in: Hecht, Л Child of ¡he Century, bk. 5, -Enter,... | |
 | David Reid - 1994 - 414 pages
...Tinseltown: "Hollywood's like Egypt. Full of crumpled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands." Taking the long view, which the atomic age encouraged, Kennan brooded on the vulnerabity of Los Angeles,... | |
 | Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel L. Scherr - 1995 - 352 pages
..."Hollywood's like Egypt," said David. "Full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands." And now that the tumult was gone, what had the movies been? A flood of claptrap, he insisted, that... | |
 | Gene D. Phillips - 1998 - 640 pages
...have worked in Hollywood. "Hollywood's like Egypt," the late producer David O. Selznick once remarked, "full of crumbled pyramids. It will just keep crumbling...industry. Hollywood might have become the center of a new human expression if it hadn't been grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a... | |
 | Gene D. Phillips - 1999 - 330 pages
...Artists in an Industry "Hollywood's like Egypt," the late producer David O. Selznick once remarked, "full of crumbled pyramids. It will just keep crumbling...industry. Hollywood might have become the center of a new human expression if it hadn't been grabbed by a little group of bookkeepers and turned into a... | |
 | Joe McElhaney - 2012 - 272 pages
...O. Selznick equated Hollywood with Egypt, "full of crumbling pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands."9 This sense of Hollywood as a crumbling ruin began to manifest itself in films about the process... | |
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Full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. 