Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLLYWOOD, Huntington Hartford Theater: Ellis Rabb's Association of Producing Artists revival of You Can't Take It with You, which played to packed houses on Broadway, proving that age is only relatives...
Avant-garde French moviemakers study Hollywood directors, who return the compliment. Basic rock 'n' roll, formed in the U.S., peaked in England with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who proceeded to influence U.S. music. The French invented the discothèque, but the discaīre at New Jimmy's in Paris plays mostly American records. Italian coffeehouses proliferate in big U.S. cities, while the Italians wear Jantzen swimsuits on their beaches. Japanese transistor radios, TVs and tape recorders do as well in New York as James Baldwin's novels in Tokyo or Edward Albee...
Pride & Prejudice. Despite his virtuosity, Previn's reputation in serious music circles was tarnished by his Hollywood glitter. "Wherever I went to conduct," he complains, "it was always 'Hollywood's Andre Previn came here last week and . . .' To have written a Broadway score is O.K., even admirable; having played a lot of jazz is O.K., but less admirable. But somehow, having worked in Hollywood is like being a well-known whore...
Previn won purity when he was invited to conduct the Houston Symphony four years ago. The city, with plenty of fierce pride in its fine orchestra and practically no prejudice against Hollywood, gave him high critical acclaim, has invited him back to conduct every year since then. Now he is the only guest conductor scheduled to lead the Houston Symphony, and nobody will be the least bit surprised if he eventually replaces 66-year-old Conductor Sir John Barbirolli. Previn does not expect that any of this will turn his head, which might be on a swivel by now. Conducting...
...years to come. Confronted by an office pal while a couple of drowsy strangers storm her bathroom one morning, she dryly quips: "The others don't get up until noon." Altogether, Don't Run is champion-class drollery-slight, stylish, graceful, and abrim with evidence that Hollywood's honorable high-comedy traditions are being well preserved...