Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular Arabic movies exemplify the duality of the Western inheritance. On the one hand, they ogle European fashions, hairstyles, sports cars, ad nauseum. But they also liberate the roles of women; the heroines can be as impulsive, seductive and treacherous as their Hollywood counterparts...
...there more to love on Lucy than there used to be? No, Actress Lucille Ball, 65, still boasts the same trim figure she had when she first came to Hollywood as a Goldwyn Girl in 1934. But to impersonate Singer Sophie Tucker on Bob Hope's All-Star Tribute to Vaudeville (NBC, March 25), Ball donned a special "fat suit." "I always admired Sophie's elegant arrogance," says Ball, who carefully practiced Tucker's mannerisms and purposeful strut across the stage. But Lucy could not master Sophie's sweeping bow. "When you take a fast...
There is no message in this elegy from a Hollywood graveyard. The Haywards were unusual and interesting only in their good fortune, not their bad. Tolstoy was wrong: it is unhappy families that are all the same. Happiness is unique, the product of endless labor, never-ending struggle. It demanded an effort the Haywards were not willing to make...
...years, from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s, Maggie and Leland were phosphorescent figures in Hollywood, New York, and on the Super Chief in between. But Maggie, Leland's third wife, was driven to seek a life (or perhaps an ordinariness) for herself and her children; she hated her husband's job and constant telephoning as much as she loved...
...devoted moviegoer, the nephew might have foreseen the all too predictable misadventures that beset him on his quest. His billion-dollar journey is a veritable clearance sale of Hollywood comedy-adventure clichés. He is conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...