MOVIES - July 21, 1988

On another matter, the L.A. Film Development Committee, a 14-year-old, 50-member advisory group reporting to Mayor Tom Bradley, soon may be shutting down as part of a plan to create a new nine-member L.A. Film Commission setting policy for the Mayor’s Office of Entertainment Industry Development. The fate of the development committee is likely to be decided at a closed meeting scheduled for today at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City. Daily Variety on Wednesday raised a ruckus about the closed meeting, suggesting that the committee may be violating the state’s Brown Act, which declares that meetings of public bodies cannot be closed to the public, except when confidential personal matters are being discussed. The trade paper quoted the committee’s president, Dan Slusser, as saying the act only applies to “organized” groups and that his was an “unofficial group.”