# "Making Love" (1980) and "The Celluloid Closet" (1995): Who was the clueless studio executive?

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
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Saw this for the first time on TCM recently. In the 1995 doc, an interviewee mentions that he provided a private screening of “Making Love” for an unnamed new executive and his family, and that the exec was intensely outraged when the subject matter finally sank in. Any ideas???

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-love-1980-and-the-celluloid-closet-1995-who-was-the-clueless-studio-executive/945833/2 "2021-07-06T20:33:42Z")

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According to Buzzfeed, [it was 20th Century Fox’s new owner, Marvin Davis](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/hollywoods-forgotten-gay-romance). The movie was originally greenlit by production chief Sherry Lansing, who - coincidentally or not - departed Fox shortly after Davis took over.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-love-1980-and-the-celluloid-closet-1995-who-was-the-clueless-studio-executive/945833/3 "2021-07-07T15:28:26Z")

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Cool, thanks.