Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest problem with Steven Spielberg's 1941 is its budget: this film is the most expensive Hollywood farce ever made. Certainly money has its uses in movies, but in a comedy? A key element of humor is surprise; jokes are funniest when they sneak up on the audience out of nowhere. In big-budget film making, the opportunities for comic am bush quickly disappear. Every joke announces itself in deafening stereo sound. Every pratfall is as momentous as Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the, Red Sea. Punch lines cannot be thrown away, but are instead hurled like...
...Angeles detective involved with both her and a synthetic-oil conspiracy, whatever that is, while investigating a routine murder. Scott found Sanda's French accent so thick that he had difficulty understanding her. That would make for bad acting and a bad movie. Change the fraulein, as Hollywood often does, to a mademoiselle? Great Scott, not in this case. At Scott's insistence, Sanda was paid $350,000, packed off to Paris and replaced by Swiss Marthe Keller. At least that's the reported dénouement. Neither Scott nor Sanda would talk about it. Her only...
...Loose Ends as the days of this decade dwindle. These vignettes about two people who play desperately at love, only to fumble and lose, contain more honest sensitivity about Americans in the '70s than any slick, year-end-wrap-up-mag or heart warming-hollywood-hack...
DIED. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 78, last of the madcap Marx brothers; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. The youngest Marx was pulled out of high school to replace his brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo...
...Going Hollywood...