Word: chinatown
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Directors wearing puttees and waving bullhorns decorate Hollywood back-lots. The air reeks of bathtub gin. Model Ts cause traffic jams. At first it was simple evocations of the '20s (The Great Gatsby) and '30s (Chinatown). Now the trend is narcissistic...
...first official totals were posted on the ballroom's huge vote board at 8:25 p.m. White had taken Chinatown, 241 to 100. Richard Dray, a 12-year-old "family friend of the Whites," predicted "a big win" for White and said, "People are tense just because it's hot in here...
...cable car, however, took a Greyhound-like rest stop on a hill near Chinatown. All forty passengers left the car and walked to the next corner as the two conductors repaired the cable and pushed the car up the local hill...
...Locust. A guady adaptation of Nathaniel West's fine, sparsely sketched novel. Somebody in the Village Voice pointed out that this movie should have looked like Chinatown and China-town should have looked like this. A mixup in cinematographer contracts, no doubt. Good performances by Karen Black and Burgess Meredith make it worth $1.25 at Harvard Square on Monday and Tuesday nights...
...full-length scores a year, along with other assignments. For a 110-minute feature film they allow between six and eight weeks. A 90-minute TV movie can be polished off in two weeks. Jerry Goldsmith, 46, a veteran of some 65 films, churned out the music for Chinatown in ten days...