Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commercial film slowly, tentatively, expands to incorporate the different categories of film-making not usually associated with neighborhood theatres, Hollywood, and section 2 of the Sunday Times...
CAMELOT. Joshua Logan's re-creation of the fantasy land inhabited by King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero) is about as enchanting as a Hollywood back lot, despite the regal talents and rich voice of the leading lady...
...Hollywood really knows how to make a guy welcome. Barbra Streisand, Jack Lemmon, Steve Allen, Lucille Ball, Pierre Salinger, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Merle Oberon, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Mario Thomas, David Niven, Alan Jay Lerner, Donna Reed, Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Andy Williams, Tom Smothers, Don Adams and Shirley MacLaine-all of them, plus about 400 others, paid $250 per couple to do honor to Paris Couturier André Courrèges, 44, at a showing of his new collection in Los Angeles. Courreges could only assume that their presence...
...film also stops now and then to ogle gratuitous and unfunny sight gags, like Sinatra asleep on his office sofa under a Yiddish newspaper. It remains one of Hollywood's major mysteries why a performer who puts so much style into his records so often sabotages his genuine talents in shoddy and ill-chosen movie vehicles...
...favorite writer was Proust and in his final book, The Lost World, he dipped back into his Hollywood childhood in two long poems. Though he tries to escape into the past, the book has residues of bitterness against the present from a collection of violent essays entitled A Sad Heart in the Supermarket he wrote in the early '60s. In The Lost World he writes a wonderfully weary poem of the suburban house that could have the same title as his earlier anthology...