Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trip to New Orleans. If Gait was remembered as shy and pleasant by most of his acquaintances, the Hollywood drinking crowd in the area of an apartment he rented and at the St. Francis Hotel, where he also stayed, recall him as an obsessive racial bigot, an abrasive patron who belted screwdrivers, dozed on the bar stool and bickered with anyone around. Everyone at the Rabbit's Foot Club remembers Gait's big dispute. A young woman had the temerity to tell him that Negroes were "good people." This so enraged Gait that he grabbed...
Divorced. Tony Curtis, 42, one of Hollywood's oldest baby-faces (Sex and the Single Girl); by Christine Kaufmann, 23, sometime actress (Taras Bulba); on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood's blackest blacklist. It is inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black...
...early to tell whether the new young men are princes or pretenders. The old caliphs already have credit for a string of masterpieces, from Citizen Kane to Shane, while their successors still have most of their pet projects in scenario or on camera. Hollywood is waiting to see whether they are merely doing cosmetic surgery or whether they can truly change the town...
...Space Odyssey cannot be easily judged if only because of its dazzling technical perfection. To be able to see beyond that may take a few years. When we have grown used to beautiful strange machines, and the wonder of Kubrick's special effects wears off by duplication in other Hollywood films, then we can probe confidently beyond 2001's initial fascination and decide what kind of a film it really...