Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current fare has everything: Cinemascope, Hypno Vista, a little terror, a little sex, and more laughs than the writer intended. Following a rollicking travelogue through Poland comes a sales pitch on hypnotism by a man we are assured is an eminent Hollywood psychiatrist. The movie we are about to see, he promises us, is a real tiger; within five minutes we're going to be scared silly...
When Ferdinand (The Great Impostor) Demara blew into Hollywood three weeks ago for his first movie, The Hypnotic Eye, Producer Charles Bloch and Allied Artists' Pressagent Ted Bonnet were at the airport to meet his plane. One by one, the passengers filed down the ramp-but no Demara. The stewardess said that Ferdinand had indeed been on the New York-Hollywood flight, but he seemed to have disappeared. Just as Producer Bloch turned to walk away, a bulky man dressed like a pilot tapped him on the shoulder: "You looking for a guy named Demara?" "Yes," replied Bloch...
...surgeon, a psychology professor, a college dean, a cancer researcher, an assistant prison warden and a Trappist monk (TIME, June 29), acting seemed a logical career. But after a few days on the set of The Hypnotic Eye-Demara plays a doctor, plus eight bit parts-he decided that Hollywood was not for him. "The technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal International plans to produce from the bestseller...
Sammy Click, the Horatio Alger of the dedicated heels, this week made his debut in television-a world in which he would have felt as much at home as he did in Hollywood. Literary case histories of ruthless ambition have greatly multiplied since Sammy first came running 20 years ago, but he still outpaces them all. Novelist Budd Schulberg himself trimmed his book down to a two-part, two-hour television show, and to judge from the first installment (the second is due Sunday, NBC, 8 p.m., E.D.T.), TV cannot dim the rage of Sammy's mean-spirited race...
...months, maybe even tomorrow, Hollywood will make a movie of The Subterraneans, thereby delivering the kiss of death. It is time to get out, it is time for rats to leave the sinking ship," concluded Mortimer, not altogether pleased with the imagery...