Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black-face), and the damn thing is so ridiculously dated, so badly dubbed (the singing, that is--it may remind you of TV variety show dubbing), and so obviously "acted," that it should stand as one of the most howlingly, unintentionally bad movies ever to come out of Hollywood. Which means you'll love it, expecially during reading period...
Annie Hall fans, be brave. After all, as the final fadeout made clear, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton were not meant for each other. Now Keaton has a new admirer, Hollywood heartthrob, Warren Beatty. When the pair went restaurant hopping in Beverly Hills, Supersnapper Ron Galella was on their trail in a flash. "This is a paparazzo attack," said Galella. "I'm not going to make it easy," retorted Beatty, and ordered Keaton to lower her head. Keaton, who had stayed in Los Angeles after winning her Oscar, then retreated to a recording studio to make her first album...
DIED. Frank Tallman, 59, Hollywood's top stunt pilot, who crashed countless old "Jennys" into barns and mountains without mishap; in a private-plane accident while trying to land in a violent rainstorm; in Santa Ana, Calif. A naval aviator during World War II, Tallman barnstormed throughout the next two decades in a legendary partnership, called Tallmantz, with Pilot Paul Mantz, who also died in a crash. The proceeds of Tallman's daredevil work in movies (Catch-22, The Carpetbaggers) helped him build a personal collection of classic planes...
There's a marvelously funny scene in this cheerful Brazilian comedy-based on a novel by Jorge Amado-that depends for its effect on two social elements that would seldom be found together in a Hollywood or even European movie. One is enough permissiveness to allow the filming of nude actors going vigorously through the motions of sexual intercourse. The other that there is enough strictness and propriety so that the niceties of marital faithfulness and the awful pratfall of cuckoldry matter a great deal...
Saturday Night Fever. Since a major national magazine recently ran a cover piece on the Vietnamization of Hollywood, maybe a free-lancing stargazer somewhere will write something on the Italianization of its box office idols. John Travolta's disco-dancing Tony has joined Sylvester Stallone's Rocky as one of America's favorite silver screen heroes, and the similarities between the two films do not end there. There is the same low-budget feel to "Saturday Night Fever"--the obscure director, in this case a fellow named John Badham who seems bent on dazzling his audiences with bizarre camera angles...