Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advocate of Wallace. From Gait's relationship with Stein came hints that Gait had at least a speaking acquaintance with Hollywood supporters of the presidential bid of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Stein said Gait agreed to take him to New Orleans only after Stein had agreed to sign a Wallace petition. Gait took him to the Wallace North Hollywood headquarters, and so well-known was Gait there that Stein presumed him to be some kind of politician. Wallace headquarters aides say that their files list no one named Gait...
...living in Hollywood...
When I lived in Paris or London, everybody sneered at the Hollywood style or Hollywood superficiality. But when I moved here in the '40s, who were my neighbors? Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, Aldous Huxley, Heifetz, Thomas Mann, Stravinsky and Rubinstein. What Hollywood style? What Hollywood superficiality? These creative people lived here, first, because the city is so widespread that you can have your privacy when you want it. Second, the climate. Also, people here are not afraid to break traditions. When we want to play without a conductor...
...world of films is represented by a portfolio of Andy Warhol girls, whose cliches are beginning to rival Hollywood's: "My best scene with Andy so far was a rape scene. I think sex and nudity in films are completely right because that's the way it is in life...
...Some critics have dismissed Couples as an upper-middle-class Peyton Place. It isn't, but it is getting a sensational reception all the same. Only three weeks after publication, the novel is on the bestseller lists. Knopf ordered a huge first printing of 70,000 copies, and Hollywood's Wolper Productions paid $500,000 for the movie rights...