Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noisy and public enough to have been the bust-up of a particularly rocky Hollywood marriage, which in fact was just what it had been. The principals were the top executives at Transamerica, the San Francisco-based insurance-manufacturing-entertainment conglomerate, and the management of its United Artists subsidiary. With Oscar-winning smashes like Rocky and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, United Artists is Hollywood's most successful film producer. But after closing the books on their best year ever, U.A.'s entire brain trust, including Chairman Arthur Krim and President Eric Pleskow...
...Hollywood it is called "working the set." It happens when a producer has ordered up some costly and elaborate make-believe edifice that he wants on the screen constantly, shot from as many angles as possible, in order to justify its expense. Far from resisting this demand, the director will typically respond with bursts of enthusiastic inventiveness-a kid playing happily with a splendid...
...Hollywood's new formula is fantasy and rock...
...Hollywood people do nothing in twos or even fours. Studios will be watching the returns on these movies closely because many more musicals are on the way. Hot Wax, the story of a '50s disc jockey, is already in production, as is FM, a film about a rock radio station, and Thank God It's Friday!, about a Los Angeles discotheque. Neil Diamond wants to do a remake of The Jazz Singer, and Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin will star in a musical version of Popeye. Annie, the Broadway hit, was just bought by Columbia Pictures...
...million pounds of warm mud in a collapsing New York City subway. Those are some of the drawbacks to playing the Soviet astrophysicist heroine of Meteor, a $16 million disaster film. For Natalie Wood, who slipped into a comfy pants outfit and posed for a picture session off the Hollywood set, the good news is that she was forced to improve her Russian for the role. Nee Natasha Za-charenko, the daughter of Russian immigrants to San Francisco, she used to speak her mother's tongue "with the sophistication of a ten-year-old," she says...