Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilian," the nation's space effort is split up between two separate bureaucratic domains, both ineffectual: the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency, headed by Roy Johnson, sometime General Electric executive, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, headed by T. Keith Glennan, engineer, ex-Hollywood studio manager and president-on-leave of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology. Neither ARPA nor NASA has enough authority or resources to set long-range goals and march toward them. Splinters of space programs are further scattered among the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Defense Department...
Alone and afoot on Hollywood Boulevard in the small hours, TV's volatile Producer-Actor Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz, 42, was collared last month by roving plain-clothes vice squadmen, booked on a "plain drunk" rap. Protesting his sobriety and threatening to call his friend, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, into the case, Arnaz finally coughed up $21 bail, was driven home by his chauffeur. Last week when the case came up in court, Arnaz did not. Bail forfeited. Case closed...
...point: Carney impersonating Ed Murrow impersonating the Delphic Oracle. In the manner of Murrow's Small World program, Carney conversed with a famous Riviera party giver ("It's really been one of the most divine and decadent seasons I can recall," gurgled Hermione Gingold); a twitch-lipped Hollywood star impersonated by Edie Adams, who did her too-familiar but still funny parody of Marilyn Monroe; and a Greek shipowner (Hans Conried) who has just bought a new Picasso-"his oldest boy." Throughout, Carney kept up the authentic Murrow atmosphere of portentousness and cigarette smoke until the great moment...
...about popular music earned Patty a $32,000 tie with another young actor: Eddie (Music Man) Hodges. By the time The Miracle Worker was ready for casting this summer, Patty had behind her some big TV specials, among them Wuthering Heights and Swiss Family Robinson, and half a dozen Hollywood movies (including The Goddess and Country Music...
...disregards the abusrd Hollywood-type funeral cortege that closes the film, The Crucible turns out to be an exciting movie, which unfortunately does not do justice to Miller's play...