Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE...
TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER. Cliches fly like arrows in this rambunctious spoof of that hallowed tradition, the Hollywood western. Barely defending Texas against the Comanches are Dean Martin as a bunkhouse bum, Rosemary Forsyth as pioneer womanhood, and Joey Bishop as a faithful Indian scout...
...Pianist Van Cliburn played at Michigan's Interlochen National Music Camp, recorded two Chopin sonatas in a New York studio, packed the Hollywood Bowl for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and ate a folksy dinner with his parents and friends at their home in Shreveport, La. In between times, he mused about himself, his fame and his music: "The role of a concert artist in a concert hall will never be eclipsed...
...nobody else was going to publish it, it wouldn't matter. But the thought that if I don't, somebody else will-I can't stand that. Besides, the real excitement is having somebody new come along, helping him get famous and watching him move to Hollywood and start calling me a son of a bitch...
...scared of the bigger boys, and who helps little old ladies across the street because he doesn't dare offer his arm to a slick chick. No real boy, of course, would accept such an unmitigated gnerd as his leader, but the producers assemble about 20 Hollywood children, fresh from Disney's patented freckle dip, who act as if they would follow Fred into the jaws of heck...