Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screen, the roster of professionals is equally impressive. Hollywood Cameraman George Folsey, who has been nominated for an Oscar 13 times, now trains his lens on Miller High Life beer and Sanka coffee. Composer Mitch Leigh, who wrote the music for Man of La Mancha, is a top jingle writer for commercials. Dress Designer Bill Blass does the wardrobe for the models who are seen nuzzling up to the Princess telephone...
...cinematic ideas. The work of such directors as Michael Cimino for Kodak, Howard Zieff for Benson & Hedges and Mike Elliott for Rheingold, has precipitated an interplay of ideas that flows freely between Madison Avenue and the conventional movie set. The directors dabble with Fellini-like stream-of-consciousness techniques. Hollywood copies TV's fast cuts and odd-angle perspectives. The quality of Richard Lester's movies A Hard Day's Night, Petulia reflects his experience as director of more than 300 commercials...
Polanski's overrated Knife in the Water was at least well-paced and slick, exuding an unpretentious formalism we happily like to associate with good committed art. Since then, the money increased, Hollywood beckoned, Polanski learned English, and his films have apparently fallen into every cinematic pitfall readily available. Repulsion revelled in cheap lens distortion and sound effects, and The Fearless Vampire Killers was lousy with back-drops painted in poorly processed Metrocolor...
...Scenes. Where has Hollywood's sudden vivid interest in homosexuality come from? "It comes from what's happening all around,'' suggests Director John Schlesinger, whose new film, Midnight Cowboys is about a male prostitute. "Everybody does more or less what he wants to these days, and no one says anything about it. Films are a reflection of that attitude, and homosexuality is just one part of the whole scene...
...could be happier about that than the gay boys themselves. "I think it's wonderful," says Ed Trust, president of the Mattachine Society. "These movies will show people that we are, first of all, people; second, homosexuals." That, however, may be a bit premature. While Hollywood bravely hurls words like "fag" across the screen, most of the homosexuals shown so far are sadists, psychopaths or buffoons. If the actors are mincing more than the dialogue these days, that may only be because Hollywood has run out of conventional bad guys...