Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lauren Bacall cleared her throat in Hollywood and came out flatly against cheesecake: "It's a fallacy to think you look sexy just because you're wearing a low-cut gown or a tight sweater. You do it with a look ... or with your voice...
Last week, gleaming with fuchsia and olive-green paint, station KOTV held its grand opening. Swarms of prominent Tulsans were disappointed when the Hollywood stars who had been announced failed to show up. But beauty was well represented by Tulsa-born Singer Patti Page, who arrived in a Cadillac, mink and diamonds; and by Helen Maria Alvarez herself who, though too busy to buy a new costume, looked more than satisfactory in a three-year-old lace dress...
Divorced. By Shirley Jane Temple, 21, cinemactress: John Agar, 28, cinemactor; after four years of marriage, one daughter; in Hollywood...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...