Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ignatius Breen, 75, longtime (1934-54) arbiter of Hollywood's movie morals, who was hired by the Hays (later Johnston) Office to boss the industry's keep-it-clean Production Code, started out by telling producers, "I'm going to throw a helluva lot of your celluloid in the ashcan," which he did while offering such "suggestions" as "Eliminate the action of Spit actually expectorating," only once faced open revolt-when Howard Hughes in 1954 released The French Line without a Seal of Approval, thus earning a $25,000 fine; of a stroke; in West Los Angeles...
...fresh and authentic as the girl next door, only more so. She had enormous saucer eyes, dimpled knees, bee-stung lips and a natural boop-poop-a-doop style. She was the cat's pajamas, the gnat's knees, and the U.S.'s favorite celluloid love goddess...
...Knack is a perfect summertime film, a celluloid gin and tonic -- bright, sparkling, mildly intoxicating, and not-at-all a serious people's film (although it may break up the stodgy old bag downstairs...
...makes an inkless intaglio, such as From My Zoo, by building up patterned layers of cardboard coated with rabbit glue and gesso, then pressing wet paper under hundreds of pounds of pressure to emboss a white-on-white print. Boris Margo, 62, similarly makes a "cellocut" by carving into celluloid, coating it with copper, and stamping it into uninked paper...
...rain chorus girl (Carol Burnett) who is mistakenly hired for a star part by the usual illiterate czar of the predictably nepotistic studio, F.F.F. Pictures. With Ella Cinders in her eyes and a mouth a dentist could not open wider, Carol Burnett makes an appealing clown-waif in the celluloid jungle. As her leading man, Jack Cassidy is a personable peacock of vanity, but all his part calls for is preening...