Word: filmdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollywood, after years of profitably cranking out fodder to feed TV's terrible tapeworm, has almost relegated the theatrical film- once its 18-carat bread and butter-to the limbo of relics along with the two-reel comedy and the Mighty Wurlitzer. Last week filmdom's labor leaders, in an effort to lock the studio door after the horse opera had gone, enlisted the aid of the House Subcommittee on the Impact of Imports and Exports on American Employment to do something about the problem of "runaways"-films made overseas by U.S. companies. The hard fact...
...heart attack; in Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...
Facts of Life sounds more like truth than filmdom. Here is my September 1960 vintage sonnet, "Were I His Mistress...
...Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft. 4 in., 175 Ibs.) 32-year-old who chomps a long black cigar with a ferocity suggestive of filmdom's bad guy, Edward G. Robinson (see cut). The Ricketts wit is the sort that leads to lynching. As entertainment editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces newspaper in the Far East with a circulation of 65,000 and an estimated readership...
...roles with a thick Russian accent, a $2,500-a-week asset of which he made light. ("Italian, I murder; Eenglish, I only manslaughter.") St. Petersburg-born, Ratoff left Russia after the Revolution, after years as a Broadway and Hollywood star won a reputation as one of filmdom's most versatile and gaudily garbed directors; of leukemia; in Solothurn, Switzerland...