Word: hollywoodizations
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...Beyond Hollywood...
Burgess Meredith, Hollywood's favorite codger, is dead at 89. Meredith appeared in almost 100 films over seven decades, from Winterset in 1936 to Grumpier Old Men. But it was after Rocky in 1976 that his image became indelible: the rasps in his throat, the twinkles in his eye are so familiar that the young, unweathered Meredith is barely recognizable...
Dodi made his professional mark as a Hollywood producer. The films he helped finance included the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, The World According to Garp and Hook. But for all his notoriety in the movie business, Dodi was unable to alter the fact that he would always be best known, in the lingo of Fleet Street, as "the playboy" from "the House of Harrods." His only marriage, to former model Suzanne Gregard, ended after eight months in 1987. In the past decade he had been linked romantically, if usually briefly, to a lengthy list of beautiful and often famous...
Grace Kelly proved America could dress up, go to the ball and come back with a prince. She left Hollywood and found royalty. Diana crossed the other way, dancing with John Travolta at the White House. She was the next chapter, the princess who insisted, with the innocence of a New World conqueror, that love could be brought into the royal chamber. Hers was another American revolution, which said we don't want to shed this crown, we want to reinvent it. She was an entrepreneur, not content to marry the title but apparently determined to live...
...heartbreaking Carmen. But there she stands, hands on svelte hips, unleashing a wonderfully womanly laugh and dazzling the hapless Joe (Harry Belafonte) by sitting down and slinging his leg over her shoulder or urging him to dry her toenails: "Blow on 'em, Sugar." Here was an adult sexuality Hollywood had rarely shown. It surfaces again in the French Tamango (1957), where Dandridge--as Aiche, the half-caste slave mistress of captain Curt Jurgens--summons a complex ferocity, connecting with Aiche's hurt as well as her love-hatred of the man who owns...