MOVIES - March 24, 1987

Director Billy Wilder’s “Some Like It Hot” will be colorized without his supervision after the Directors Guild of America refused to give an official OK to the project. Daily Variety reported Monday that Color Systems Technology Inc. offered Wilder $25,000 to supervise the colorizing of his 1959 Marilyn Monroe/Jack Lemmon/Tony Curtis classic, plus a donation of $50,000 to $100,000 to the DGA pension fund or the Motion Picture Country House & Hospital in Woodland Hills. Wilder said fine--as long as the DGA approved. The guild didn’t. The colorizing will now proceed without him.