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.