Word: hollywooden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Schiemer sometimes clumps through his plot in Hollywooden shoes, but redeems himself by capturing the sights and sounds and smells of Egypt with the freshness of a documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The Cry of the Kite is a blend of the harsh and the exotic, and an entertainingly readable way of catching up on one's global homework...
...Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more and more Hollywooden...
...faithful maid has another job ready & waiting the moment the funeral is over. These scenes, painstakingly written by Playwright Paul Osborn (On Borrowed Time, Point of No Return), have a certain effectiveness, but it is eventually canceled out by a slick reconciliation and by the offstage presence of a Hollywooden surgeon who knows just how to operate to save Dorothy's life...
...minor problems of U.S. life: what happens when a man wins $24,000 in prizes on a radio giveaway show. Until his "lucky" night, James Stewart is a happily married junior executive in a small-town department store. His only infidelity to his wife (Barbara Hale) and two un-Hollywooden children (Natalie Wood and Tommy Rettig) has been an occasional daydream about getting away from it all and taking a trip to the North Pole...