Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have long become accustomed to such inane handling of things pertaining to this country by schoolma'am writers and Hollywood movie producers, but had thought TIME dry behind the ears. Now that you are off to a good start, dish up something worthy of record. As for the yarn in question, there are plenty of other farmers in Alaska who have taken the same rap without bothering to shift their quid to discuss it. And 35 below is practically corn-growing weather...
Topping the assorted items in TIME'S People department of Nov. 13 there is one concerning a certain Cornelia Otis Skinner, described as a "monologuist," who says: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
...contract with another recording firm. His recent polemics against the people he plays for and the natural public protest are obviously factors of no importance. And the item that one of the movie journals printed recently to the effect that Shaw was one of the most unpopular men in Hollywood because of his absolutely impossible arrogance and his hypercriticality is of no consequence...
...customer Hollywood tries hardest to please, according to Author Thorp, is the wife of a man earning more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which...
...grind. In the really good French films, they create an aesthetic standard all their own. This standard, grim and gory, vaguely reminiscent of some wind-swept parts of Wagner, is like a bucketful of cold water when it hits an American audience bottle-fed on the soothing cream of Hollywood...