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...compromising and corrupt. Like Jefferson Smith, we "did not pretend to know." But we brought clean hands. We were not like other nations. We free, we do not colonize. We give, we do not take. We are the original sinless. But the clean hands were those of Lieut. William Calley...
...names adorning the full-page letter in the International Herald Tribune guaranteed attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...anyone breathe life into Sony Corp.'s supine movie studios? After serial firings and flashy flops like last summer's The Cable Guy, Sony called in a new rescue team last week. The Japanese electronics giant hired United Artists' president John Calley as president and chief operating officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which includes the Columbia and TriStar studios, and reassigned executive Jeff Sagansky to be Calley's co-president. For the first time, a Japanese will join the studios' management team: Masayuki Nozoe, a Sony executive with a marketing background, will become executive vice president of the entertainment division...
...well-regarded Calley, 66, succeeds Alan Levine, who was forced out two weeks ago. Besides releasing hits such as Birdcage and Goldeneye at UA, Calley gussied it up, along with sister MGM, for sale to financier Kirk Kerkorian. That sparked speculation that Sony may want Calley to sell or find a partner for its own studios...
...November 1969, demonstrations across the country were spurred on by reports of an American massacre of Vietnamese civilians in 1968 at the village of My Lai. U.S. Army Lieutenant William L. Calley was tried and convicted for his role in the massacre...