Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beyond specific skills and techniques, veterans have a certain sense of confidence for having worked at their generation's job, learned some of its toughest lessons as youngsters. Hollywood Writer-Director Richard (The Blackboard Jungle) Brooks, 46, a Marine rifleman in the Marianas campaign, tries to sum up one tough-minded discovery. "Before...
...Hollywood premiere, Director Vincente Minnelli laid a proud parental hand on the young shoulders of daughter Liza, 12, strikingly close to being a doe-eyed, wonder-struck replica of her mother, Songstress Judy Garland Luft...
Last summer, while shooting his third movie (Mardi Gras) in Hollywood, Pat wrote a sun-drenched book: 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice-Hall; $2.95). By last week its call for healthy-mindedness among "my friends out there in Teen-age Land" was influencing so many of them (or their Lolita-stunned parents) that the book had become a major bestseller...
...first consults his astrologer and then bribes two top stars to work for him. He dreams up a title but does not bother about a script; dialogue is usually written just before each day's shooting. Favorite subjects are musicals (about three times more music than in a Hollywood production), "mythologicals," adventures. Whatever the category, the moviemaker cashes in by simply currying Hollywood plots and "adapting" them...
Educated Indians huffily pride themselves on never seeing an Indian movie. With the exception of a few original moviemakers in Calcutta, where Director Satyajit Ray filmed the prizewinning Father Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20), the Indian movie business is likely to go on pandering to more undemanding millions than Hollywood ever envisioned. There is good reason: the occasional jackpot is full of jack indeed. For a borrowed $500,000 two years ago, Bombay Producer Mehboob Khan made a color film, Mother India (no kin to Katherine Mayo's book of the same name), which has since raked...