Word: hollywoodizations
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...lived one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century, too implausible for a romance novel or a Hollywood blockbuster. A vivacious English aristocrat, she married Winston Churchill's only son at the outset of World War II, then a legendary Broadway producer and finally one of America's best-known and richest statesmen, before earning her own political stripes, transforming herself into a woman of substance and flourishing anew as the highly respected U.S. ambassador to France...
...really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond...
...really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have tightened things up. Beyond...
BOSTON--Thrills. Spills. A chase scene in the best of Hollywood traditions. And a climactic finish that saw the best team win--but only just barely...
...1930s and '40s, Johnny Weissmuller was King of the Jungle. But on the ground he often played straight man to his sidekick, Cheeta. More than a dozen chimpanzees took the role, and the last was genial Jiggs. Born in Liberia, he was brought to the U.S. by Hollywood trainer Tony Gentry along with sister Susie--another Cheeta portrayer--who died last month at 64. Gentry's nephew Dan Westfall, a theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan movies, and as a specialty...