Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peckinpah. Telling a violent yarn about a group of freebooting bandits operating around the Tex-Mex border at the turn of the century, Peckinpah uses both an uncommonly fine sense of irony and an eye for visual splendor to establish himself as one of the very best Hollywood directors...
...guys are resentful barbarians, who pick on the good guys for no reason and make stupid jokes ("They look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.") Easy Rider's tacked-on message, built to remit all intellectual sins, reminds one in its ludicrousness of Hollywood's concept of the "anti-war" film. Inevitably these films will conclude with a ringing condemnation of war; but that conclusion is undermined by the horrifying argument that has gone before-scene after scene of exhilarating battle sequences. Easy Rider's ending is equally convincing...
...girls we meet would never be seen totally nude in the nude swimming scene, because I wanted to show the over-forty crowd that it is possible to play like innocent children in the nude without getting into sex." In the echo chamber of our Hollywood past you can hear some sincere executive justify Hollywood's code of the thirties (twin beds for all married couples) by explaining that they want to show the under-twenty set that it is possible to be married without getting into dirty...
Many Supporters. Belous was brought to trial after he referred a young unmarried woman to an experienced Hollywood abortionist, who performed the operation for her. Because of the woman's emotional state, Belous had feared that she might try an abortion on herself or seek one in nearby Tijuana, Mexico-either of which would have involved a risk to her life Whatever his intentions, he was convicted, fined $5,000 and put on probation for two years. His appeal attracted an awesome list of supporters...
Once upon a time, Hollywood was a town without a country. To portray small-town America, camera crews would generally go no farther than the studio lot, where an idealized Main Street stood gleaming in the California sun. It is much to the credit of Director Francis Ford Coppola that he refused to accept that kind of prefabricated fakery. Bundling a handful of actors and technicians into a fleet of cars, he drove from New York to Colorado, filming a story about a young married woman on the run from responsibility. The result, called The Rain People, has such...