Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-star attitude itself threatens to become a new pose or convention in which the Hollywood swimming pool is replaced by the interesting East Side pad, the Valley ranch by a Martha's Vineyard retreat, the antic table-hopping by frantic political activism. At any rate, both Farrow and Hoffman live and breathe the new freedom; both have opted for the small apartment over the big house, the East over the West, Both feel that though there may be New York and New York, and Chicago and Chicago, there is only one Los Angeles. "I'm not connected with...
...sound of success reached Hollywood and Director Mike Nichols, who was then casting The Graduate. Summoned to Los Angeles for a screen test, Hoffman took a day off from Eh? and arrived at the studio the next morning, he says, "feeling awful. And paranoiac. I was sure the crew was asking, 'Jesus Christ, where'd they get him?' Everything Nichols told me to do, I did wrong." At one point, to prod some life into a love scene, he grabbed Actress Katharine Ross's buttocks and yanked her toward him. "When it was finally over I apologized to Nichols...
...that raises "Good morning" to the level of a state secret, took some of those particles and put them together in vaguely chronological order. In nearly every respect, Farrow began as Hoffman's polar opposite. He was outside show business with his nose pressed up against the window. In Hollywood, Mia was Old Money: her father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio when I was nine. The whole family had to be evacuated...
Telescopic Shots. The advantages of the Dynalens system have not been lost on Hollywood studios, which are already using it for filming aerial telescopic shots. TV networks are also equipping their mobile units with the device. And the armed forces are not only using the system for photography and surveillance but are also experimenting with Dynalens-equipped gun sights that remain fixed on their target and keep gun barrels pointed in the right direction, despite any movement of the platform itself...
...Boat closed, his famous line, "Hap-pee New Year!," was being imitated by revelers everywhere. After that, in dozens of films (Destry Rides Again, Give My Regards to Broadway), he was type-cast as a bibulous yet benign paterfamilias. Said Winninger: "I've played father to everyone in Hollywood except Charles Laughton...