Word: biopic
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...cowboys had their heyday. Already this year we have seen films about the rise of '50s Deejay Alan Freed (American Hot Wax), the advent of the Beatles (/ Wanna Hold Your Hand) and the swan song of The Band (The Last Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect entertainment that treats its hero as a full-fledged saint. But in box office terms, The Buddy
This land may belong to you and me, but it does not look as if it's going to belong to Bound for Glory, the soporific biopic about Woody Guthrie, the folk singer who wrote that familiar and stirring line...
...whammo style and success. If Variety is the bible of show business with a slanguage all its own. Green, to mix up a Variety-style metaphor, was its King James. Virtually half the industry's vocabulary was respelled under his jocular hand. Samples: webs (TV networks), fest (festival), biopic (filmed biography), exex (executives), soap scripter (writer of soap operas). His most quoted headline was penned early on in his career: STICKS NIX HICK...
...even in the interests of good taste. To correct this defect, Author John (Ten North Frederick) O'Hara has developed an idea that may in future save the public ear from being so painfully chewed by Hollywood's more persistent ego beavers. He has written a "biopic" without a bio. The heroes of this latest vanity film are Lew Brown, Ray Henderson and the late Buddy de Sylva, the well-known Tin Pan Alley team of the '203. But the story is the story of three other guys: O'Hara just made it up. Furthermore...