Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club has received a letter from Veritas Productions Inc. of Hollywood, threatening to sue for damages if the College group continues to use the present name. Veritas Productions claims to have used the disputed title since 1936 and to have incorporated...
...Christ too sacred to appear in a movie? He was played by Actor H. B. Warner in Cecil B. DeMille's famed King of Kings, made in 1927 and still shown some 1,200 times a year in the U.S. alone. Since then, Hollywood has tended to show Christ only as a shadow, a light, a symbol, a back or a vague outline...
...Hollywood, waiting tensely for the trip to the operating room, heard the clink of the amputation tools. When the Supreme Court held Hollywood's major studios guilty of violating the antitrust laws (TIME, May 17), it sent the case back to the lower court for a tougher ruling on how the studios should divorce themselves from their theater chains...
Last week the Justice Department proposed that Hollywood's Big Five-Paramount, Loew's Inc. (M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros., and 20th Century-Fox -be ordered to 1) sell their interest in theater chains they partially control (about 1,400 movie houses) within a year, and 2) submit plans on how they expect to get rid of some of their remaining (about 1,600) theaters within the next five. And each time they buy a new theater they would have to get court approval...
...Teeth, The Searching Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...