Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TODAY'S HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER hunts for film scripts like Nero once combed for concubines, but while the Roman mogul's search uncovered ample talent, the Sunset Boulevard set's has unearthed little. The insatiable public demand for commercial properties so far outstrips the screenwriters' meager production that producers are forced to fall back on proven story ideas. The resulting list of products reads like a Porcellian Club roster--Godfather II, Jaws 2, Rocky II, and Gone with the Wind...
Green defended the "Hollywood Sound" he created by calling it "simply the incredible concentration of virtuoso musicians, orchestrators, composers and conductors at MGM." He demonstrated its variety with contrasting soundtrack excerpts...
...becomes unwieldy, but its graceful melody rescues it. Henley and Frey have better luck closer to home, in the jokey, hokey bacchanal of The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks or the sly ironies of The Disco Strangler (a collaboration with String Player Don Felder) and King of Hollywood, in which a hard-hustling mogul is nailed neatly in two fleet lines: "He's just another power junky/ Just another silk-scarf monkey...
Perelman married West's sister Laura in 1929. He began his career drawing and writing for Judge and College Humor; the Depression found him in Hollywood writing gags for the Marx Brothers. He also co-authored a number of plays, including One Touch of Venus with Ogden Nash, and in 1956 shared an Academy Award for his work on the film Around the World in 80 Days...
Alas, Fassbinder is doing more than mere fooling around. Increasingly, he seems to be the '70s heir to such past camp masters as the '50s Hollywood director Douglas Sirk (Magnificent Obsession) and the '60s Warhol disciple Paul Morrissey (Flesh). But unlike his predecessors, Fassbinder does not recognize the limits of the form. Camp is fine for movies that want to trade exclusively in offbeat humor and florid emotions. In Maria Braun, Fassbinder makes the serious mistake of try ing to convey ideas...