Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Ava and Frankie were in Australia, she on location for her movie On the Beach, he for a concert engagement. Yet even their well-known aversion to crowds and the press could not keep the Aussies at a distance. The result was something special, even by Hollywood standards...
Faulkner has contributed to moviemaking in general the bonanza idea of a degenerate family in the degenerate South, but at this point, he and the movies part company Hollywood is currently enjoying an Aristotelian vogue, observing the unities of time and place. The action of this version of The Sound and the Fury takes place in two days, with no flashbacks. Furthermore, to add insult to injury, none of it takes place at Harvard. The most Faulknerian aspect of the movie is its striking similarity to The Long Hot Summer, another film supposedly based on Faulkner...
...movie in its own right, this is a competent, interesting Hollywood effort, marked by some superior acting. It is worth seeing on that account, but one had best give up all thoughts of Faulkner before going...
Thus last week Betty Grable, for six years Hollywood's top female box-office attraction, hit the comeback trail-with both legs. Idle in the movies since 1955's How To Be Very, Very Popular ("It was a turkey"), she had allowed herself to be talked into preparing a nightclub routine for the plush, high-priced Hollywood-Las Vegas-New York-Miami circuit. Explained the Latin Quarter's General Manager Ed Risman: "We booked her because of nostalgia." But for a packed house at her opening in New York, it was the night the old nostalgia burned...
...motion picture theaters in Winniza show only Hollywood movies and the stores sell only U.S.-made articles. The students drive Fords or Chevrolets by U.S. traffic rules. They study the history of the United States in original American school books and they talk about baseball and the latest scandals...