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Word: hollywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate, Coming Home is highlighted by three brilliant performances by the leads, especially Voight. Moreover, it provides the first really sensitive treatment of the problems of the disabled in an important film. And while it's certainly not radical, it's refreshing to see something come out of Hollywood with a major political message...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Speaking of Jodie Foster. We hear Roman Polanski is begging the French government to extradite him back to Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...tuna melts and guacamole (never at the same sitting), listened a lot to the sound track from Last Tango in Paris, and even worked together in a show called Over Here! By the last night of the show, Travolta had resolved to try his luck Out There. In Hollywood, his old pal Jerry Wurms drove Johnny to auditions on the back of his motorcycle. Travolta scored his first movie job in a little horror called The Devil's Rain, in which he melts into a puddle of liquid putrescence while shouting, "Blasphemer! Blasphemer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...genius, he often resorted to simply slapstick or "dirty" words. Either way, audiences loved him or his material, and today Brooks is perhaps the most successful comedian in America. His manic energy and his sense of humor carried him from Lake Kiamesha to television and finally, inevitably, to Hollywood, from whence he has just released his sixth film, High Anxiety...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Standard Anxiety | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...atom is projected as a blinding light show. A Kalki/Kelly double and the horse he rode in on are blown to shreds, an event that tens of millions get to examine in endless TV replays. It is, notes an L.A. viewer, "the biggest thing that's hit the Hollywood Hills since what's-his-name walked on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegant Hell | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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