Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Council of Fredericksburg, Va. decided that the new abbreviated street signs reading "Jeff Davis Boulevard" were both confusing and improper. People might think they meant Hobo King Jeff Davis instead of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the Council ruled. It ordered bigger signs to carry the full name "with all the dignity that great man decerves...
...Hole (Paramount), Producer-Director Billy Wilder's first movie since Sunset Boulevard, gleefully dissects human beings at their worst. The picture is clever, original, technically expert, and carries an occasional sharp sting of truth. But it runs a good idea into the ground and leaves a bad taste in the mouth...
...Hollywood Story (Universal-International) is a very poor man's Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...
Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few brief scenes...
...Hills (11 miles), take Route 9 to Westbore (21 miles), switching southward on Route 20 to Sturbridge (26 miles), switch south again on route 15 to East Hartford (30 miles). Take the last turnoff before the Charter Oak toll bridge on Main Street, East Hartford. Turn left on Connecticut Boulevard (Route 44). Stay on Route 44 to Canton (16 miles). Switch to Route 4 through Torrington to Sharon (42 miles). Take Route 343 to Amenia, New York (5 miles), then 44 again to Raymond Avenue stoplight (24 miles). Turn left on Raymond and proceed to the main gate of Vassar...