Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later this month, M-G-M is planning a celebration almost as colossal as the burning of Rome. So many invitations have already gone out to local bigwigs, from Governor Earl Warren on down, that only the most dazzling movie names can hope to make their way along Wilshire Boulevard, lined with a Praetorian Guard of dress extras, to the Four Star Theater. To keep lesser mortals constantly reminded of the occasion, M-G-M hirelings have already arranged publicity tie-ups with everything from soap to fire insurance. Piece de resistance: the Quo Vadis hairdo, a tight-fitting...
...Near North Side. Algren has this Chicago heavily on his mind in his latest work: the city of Hinky Dink Kenna, the Capone gang, and the Black Sox. His poetic description of the town and his reactions to it hangs largely about the wrong side of Michigan Boulevard...
Switch in Biarritz The Empress Eugenie always loved Biarritz, and Biarritz felt the same way about Eugenie. Until World War II, a bas-relief sculpture of her stood on the town's seaside boulevard; then the Germans carted it away for scrap metal. Biarritz somehow didn't look right without her. This spring, the city fathers signed up a 28-year-old Chilean sculptor named Juan Luis Cousino to carve a new statue. The sculptor's advance design was perfect: a gay, wasp-waisted Eugenie in swirling crinolines. Last week the city fathers were hopping mad. They...
...green-eyed, reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...
...than Tennessee, more phonies than Times Square, queerer logic than Wonderland, and stranger mores than almost any place in or out of this world. But, fearful of its reputation-which at times has been several degrees below zero-it knocks itself out trying to convince the world that Sunset Boulevard is just an extension of Main Street. For the past decade, the U.S. has been flooded with pictures of stars scrubbing their floors, baking cakes, sewing clothes and doing everything but breastfeeding their own babies. At a recent meeting of Hollywood pressagents, Producer William (Forever Amber) Perlberg scolded: "You have...