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I want to thank the fellows over at Universal for their "Welcome to Mark Hellinger" ad in the trade papers. It felt warm and sincere. Those are rare adjectives in this game.
I guess I'm still pretty lucky when it comes to meeting right guys. I like the men I've shaken hands with on my new lot, and I hope they'll learn to like me. They talk a lingo I enjoy hearing. They seem to hold the odd belief that it's good to mean what you say when you say it.
I have five properties now under consideration for Universal release, and my plans are extremely simple. Like this:
I will strive to make boxoffice pictures intelligently, and to give full credit where credit is actually due. Players under contract to my corporation will get a square shake without asking. Writers who complete scripts with me will share in my returns.
Simple notions, aren't they? Told you they were. Maybe they're so simple that they won't work out in an industry loaded with cold souls in hot competition. But I'm going to give my ideas a whirl just the same.
Because, if I click, so will everyone around me — and that's the way it should be. AH I know about money is that you're a sucker if you make it and can't enjoy it. I've been around this world several times the hard way, and I never met a guy yet who could clip coupons in a coffin ...
Once again, my thanks to the gang at Universal. And if I may be permitted one flashback to the days when I was writing racing yarns for my column, I'd like to say that the weather's very clear now — and the track is just right — and it's awfully swell to feel that you're finally running in the right colors . . .
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