Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be something good in me." Nursing a ventilated chest, Stewart staggers by to add that old Dino "always wanted the right things" but somehow "it was always hard for him to see the light at the end of the trail." And so, fans, ever true to the old Hollywood epitaph, they died with their boots in their mouths...
Leave he does, for an assignment in Hollywood, only to find his Salzburg companions arriving daily-adrift, usually broke, looking for movie money. Behrman's glimpse of Hollywood will not trouble the ghosts of novelists Evelyn Waugh and Nathanael West, but he does focus on something these satirists missed. Behrman's Hollywood is like a latter-day Paris or Geneva-an asylum for talented refugees who in fact fled to the area in the late...
...workingout of stylistic change is often a laborious process, and The Bride Wore Black reflects much of that in its shaky moving shots and occasional harsh cuts. But anything made with any kind of style is good to see these days, given what Hollywood is releasing, and the pleasure of having a new Truffaut around is diminished only by the Boston release this week of Bunuel's Belie de Jour, and Chabrol's incredible The Champagne Murders, about which we will have more to say later...
Ronald Reagan was a long way from Hollywood and Vine last weekend, helping with Republican fund-raising affairs across the South. But just three blocks south of the famous old intersection, in a rambling warehouse, dedicated volunteers were running an eight-day "Recall-a-thon" aimed at removing Reagan from his starring role in Sacramento...
Because of today's declining market for fiction, says Fleming in this week's New York Times Book Review, writers are producing journalism to make a living-an advance over writing hack fiction or Hollywood scripts. Beyond that, journalism enables them to escape from their own introspection, the "feeling of feeding on one's own vitals, of using up and then repeating and restringing ad nauseam one's autobiographic experience." Journalism replenishes their experiences of the world...