LETTERS The Producers
Sir: William Cash's article (`Kings of the deal', 29 October) on Hollywood was both inaccurate in fact and disturbingly racist in content.
Given that Mr Cash actually resides in Los Angeles, it is astonishing that he appears unaware that two of the major stu- dios are owned by Japanese corporations, Twentieth Century Fox by Rupert Murdoch of the Australian-based News Corporation, and MGM and UA by the French Bank, Credit Lyonnais.
By the way, the chairman and chief exec- utive of MGM is an enormously talented, highly regarded Italian-American who goes by the name of Frank Mancuso.
If you spread the net further, major influ- ences in the new audio-visual industry include John Malone of TCI and Ted Turn- er of the Turner Corporation, who, by the way, owns the MGM library of pictures; and one should not forget Bill Gates of Microsoft who will have a significantly increasing role in determining the future of the rapidly expanding audio-visual/telecom- munications industries.
Mr Cash's innuendo that there is a Jew- ish cabal simply does not stand up under scrutiny and can therefore only be motivat- ed by an anti-Jewish bias.
Michael Williams-Jones
United International Pictures, IJIP House, 45 Beadon Road, Hammersmith, London W6
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