Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive Eighth Symphony is something like Texas-big as all get-out, very impressive in spots, and full of flat and windy stretches. It requires so huge a cast that it has seldom been performed in the U.S. (the last time was in 1942). Last week, in Hollywood's huge open-air Bowl, Conductor Eugene Ormandy roamed over it with an orchestra of 120, including an organ, two harps and a mandolin; two choruses of 350 each; a boy's choir of 100; seven vocal soloists and a separate band of eight trumpets and four trombones. Consensus: outdoors...
...Well, the blow has fallen," mourned Elsa Maxwell, columning from the Riviera. "Maurice Chevalier is going to be married." But even if he was,* Elsa could bear up. There were lots of lovely people on the Riviera, many from Hollywood...
...that Hollywood outshone the rest. Cabled one Riviera correspondent last week: "Nobody goggles at Rita Hayworth's body among the hundreds of slim, tanned bathing beauties, or at Tyrone Power's muscles alongside the bronzed Apollos." The cinema people were enjoying relative anonymity...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has pointed out, the bare bones of this story might just as well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...
...length of film, sequences had been cut . . . The writer has become director and producer. Indeed, the affinity to the film is everywhere apparent." Several of his books (e.g., The Ministry of Fear, Brighton Rock) have been transmogrified into movies-and one (The Power and the Glory) bowdlerized into Beauty, Hollywood style (as The Fugitive...