Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since forming his own trio last May, he has made one swinging LP, Arrival of a Young Giant (World Pacific), and on a single day last July he appeared on three major network programs: Showcase '68, the Today show and Johnny Carson. He was a smash at the Hollywood Bowl and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Last week the Craig Hundley Trio * set off on a tour of the Midwest with Singer Johnny Mathis and his band. As they say in show biz, Craig Hundley is on a hot roll...
Well aware that parental concern about galloping pornography had powerful support in Washington, the Motion Picture Association of America last October announced a new voluntary system of rating pictures-the first in Hollywood history. "We don't want to legally pass judgment on art," explained M.P.A.A. President Jack Valenti. "What we're trying to do is educate the parents." All Mom and Dad have to learn is four letters: G, M, R and X. G is the code's symbol for suggested for general audiences; M: suggested for mature audiences; R: restricted-persons under 16 not admitted...
...Body Snatchers," "Madigan") finest films, its pleasantly mechanical script completely transcended by the honesty and directness of Siegel's style and a moral concern for the fate of his characters. Clint East-wood is fabulous, and the Siegel stock company (Susan Clark, Don Stroud) again proves a group of Hollywood's most capable new actors. Marred only by an unfortunately pedestrian last 60 seconds. At the ORPHEUM, Washington...
...bulk of The Parade's Gone By..., reflective memoirs of the pioneers and people close to them, brilliantly recreate the innovative bent of the entire industry during its initial experimental development towards a polished craftsmanship we still associate with Hollywood. Joseph Henabery, Griffith's first assistant in Intolerance, offers a valuable portrait of Griffith's working methods, as well as stories about the problems of manipulating hundreds of extras while the newly-formed IWW tried to create unions; his delight at foiling their wicked socialist endeavors may be repellent to today's reader, yet serves as invaluable documentation...
...they make. The enormous relevance of The Parade's Gone By... to students is the direct link between the spirit of the pioneers and that of a kid fighting to get his first film completed. We need not reject the traditions of American narrative film-making, only those of Hollywood since Wall Street took over; Brownlow's emphases on the almost mystical forces that drew these early film-makers to their calling with such a vengeance serves as example, justifying to an extent our own feelings that proper values can be restored, that we must take chances to put conviction...