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- <text id=92TT0072>
- <title>
- Jan. 13, 1992: Business Notes:Hollywood
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 13, 1992 The Recession:How Bad Is It?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- HOLLYWOOD
- The Lion Fires Its Boss
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- <p> The curtain has been rung down on the long-running farce
- starring would-be film mogul Giancarlo Parretti. Last week a
- Delaware judge confirmed Parretti's removal from the board of
- MGM-Pathe studios. A onetime waiter who bought the studio in
- 1990 for $1.3 billion, Parretti accumulated huge debts during
- his half-year tenure as CEO, forcing the company into
- involuntary bankruptcy. The studio's chief lender, the French
- bank Credit Lyonnais, pumped in $145 million to restore solvency
- but demanded his ouster. The Delaware judge agreed, condemning
- Parretti's mismanagement of the firm. The downward slide
- continued on Dec. 27, when Parretti was arrested and jailed in
- Sicily on tax-evasion charges.
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- </body></article>
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