Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past month, John Wayne's The Green Berets-Hollywood's first motion picture on the Viet Nam war-has been packing them in at theaters all across the U.S. This week the movie will open in Saigon, where, presumably, members of the Special Forces will get the chance to compare Wayne's absurd and blundering epic (TIME, June 21) with the way it really...
Powell's progress from jazz to the avant-garde followed an improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with...
...American movie-watcher is occasionally duped by hand-held camera into feeling that what he is watching is reality. But those who see a slick Hollywood color job directed and lead-roled by John Wayne know different. About every fifth person walking out of The Green Berets was giving a detailed description to his friends about how it was filmed in Georgia, how it cost $3,000,000, and how it would've cost lost more if the army hadn't lent them most of the stuff...
Furthermore, anyone who reads the Record-American and still isn't pro-war won't have his head turned by something from Hollywood. When Americans speak of something as being "like in the movies" they are referring to fantasy...