Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Academy Awards (NBC, 10:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Hollywood's annual Class Day with the platform bending under Emcees Bob Hope, David Niven, Jerry Lewis, Sir Laurence Olivier, Mort Sahl...
Still, the trigger-happy actors flash their hardware with a difference. Actor Martin makes a snap shot that snips a horseman's reins at 20 paces. Young (18) Nelson, a popular rock-'n'-roll singer, gets little opportunity to show off his tonsils in his first Hollywood movie, but he demonstrates a remarkable proficiency with a Colt .45. Wayne, of course, walks off with the show-not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood...
...five wrecked marriages, hit the bottle ("They threw a net over me and hauled me to a sanitarium"), was reclaimed by his friend John Wayne, who got him parts in Wayne pictures (Wake of the Red Witch, Fort Apache); by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in North Hollywood...
...Lovely; The Lady in the Lake), screen adapter (with Billy Wilder) of Double Indemnity, creator of glib, tough-talking Private Eye Philip Marlowe; in La Jolla, Calif. Chandler came late (44) to his fiction career, but his imagistic style put brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." Dinner "tasted like a discarded mailbag." Since Detective Marlowe was acceptable...
...Americana, Hollywood style, but well worth seeing...