Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood, Jeeps have been chic for nearly a decade. Doug Didriksen, president of Walker Brothers Jeeps in West Los Angeles, traces the trend to 1978, when he began selling four-wheelers to entertainment figures. (Bob Newhart, Kenny Rogers, Sly Stallone, Donna Summer and Steven Spielberg have been his customers.) Says Didriksen: "I don't know that I've seen one trend that has been sustained as long as this. It started slowly and has never dipped...
...golden hits to leave the springs broken in every Lincoln Center seat. On Tuesday Berry was back in his hometown of St. Louis to preside at the movie's local opening. On Thursday he showed up in Los Angeles to have his legend buffed with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And all week he was happily promoting Chuck Berry: The Autobiography (Harmony Books; $17.95), an unghosted, unfettered reminiscence about Berry's family, his music and, for seekers of the salacious, the "naughty-naughties I would commit from time to time...
...while residing in the house of propriety. On the road he is not immune to celebrity groupies, yet he remains devoted to Toddy, his wife of 39 years. He surely takes pride in his rowdy eminence, yet he considers himself and his rock peers mere "moons and satellites" to Hollywood stars like Bogart and Hepburn; a man who has spent a third of a century in the show-biz sideshow cannot shake his awe for celebrities in the main ring. He continues to play rave-up rock 'n' roll -- by now he must have performed Sweet Little Sixteen more times...
...Alfred Kazin, "he wanted to be the best. I don't hear anyone talking of being the best today. Books are now made as movies are. There is no belief that a book has a long life. Writers have abandoned the idea of making a masterpiece. Now they are Hollywood venture capitalists and accomplices in all that is happening...
...Hollywood will come to Harvard tomorrow, as film director Peter Yates previews his new film "Suspect" at the Carpenter Center...