Get Shorty / Be Cool

Get Shorty and Be Cool span an interesting ten years for MGM.
The first film was part of a wave of box office successes that pumped new life
into the moribund studio, which had been floundering for fifteen years and
hadn't yet shaken the economic disaster represented by being bought by Giancarlo
Paretti in 1989. Alan Ladd Jr. didn't get very far beyond patching up bad
financing but Frank Mancuso re-launched a strong new James Bond
(Goldeneye) and managed a string of hits, like The Birdcage.
Whereas MGM had previously been a losing proposition avoided by hot talent, for
over a year it attracted "A" class projects.

Ten years later, the Get Shorty team returned to the Chili well with a
sequel. This time the studio's oft-threatened demise actually took place,
practically as production wrapped. Frank Mancuso had l...
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