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# Santa Monica Good riddance MGM
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-good-riddance-mgm-editor/
- Published: 2002-10-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:47:32.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Hank Rosenfeld Santa Monica*

Re: MGM STUDIO leaving Santa Monica Adios! Did MGM ever do anything for this community? Did MGM ever sponsor a street fair or beach clean-up or throw a drive-in movie night or offer a homeless benefit or free booze at a Bergamot opening to help SM?

Daily Press columnist Michael Tittinger refers to a spokeswoman who says MGM is leaving their open-air campus here to “consolidate all of the company's operations under a single roof” in Century City. Wow, nice sense of history there, MGM. So much for being a movie “studio.” You’re nothing but a corporate line of clothing salesmen now, re-selling 1970’s “Blaxploitation” outfits, when here you were actually living in an MGM-era closer to circa 1939: In the magical land of Oz we call sweet Santa Monica!

So goodbye MGM, and good riddance! (Do I sound bitter? I'm sorry. I just lost two hours of my life and 9 bucks at “Windtalkers.”)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 14, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101402.pdf?ref=smdp.com)