Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Tate, who was expecting her baby this week, had appeared on television and in movies. She met Polanski when he directed her in The Vampire Killers. She returned about two weeks ago from Europe, where she had reportedly been traveling with Polanski. He had planned to return to Hollywood in time for the birth of their child, but was still in London when the bodies were discovered. He wept when he heard the news...
...locale for the story was certainly a plausible one: Los Angeles, that well-known suburb of Hollywood. The leading character was Thomas T. Noguchi, 42, who graduated in 1951 from Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, migrated to California, and was licensed to practice there in 1955. For seven years he worked as an assistant to the Los Angeles county coroner, and in late 1967 was named coroner himself. Six months later, he per formed the autopsy on Senator Robert F. Kennedy...
...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 "antiwar" 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...
...Peter and I the 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 old sex. This is courageous movie-making...
Nonetheless, Berets was an expensive production. Warner Brothers, which distributed it, will end up with some profits. Batjac, the Wayne-owned company that produced it, will just about break even. The old Hollywood axiom still holds: "If you've got a message, send a telegram." In the territory of True Grit he can safely espouse the hard line without having a Congressman on his back. "In spite of the fact that Rooster Cogburn would shoot a fella between the eyes," theorizes the law-and-order man, "he'd judge that fella before he did it. He was merely tryin...