Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...York federal courtroom last week, a congressional subcommittee cornered a group of union labor leaders. It fired the same question at them which had been asked last year of a group of Hollywood writers and producers. The question: "Are you or have you ever been a Communist?" The unionists were from the C.I.O.'s Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which takes in everyone from truck loaders to notions-counter clerks in the country's department stores. The union, with some 150,000 members, is split by a right wing-left wing fight...
Following the tactics of Communists and of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," the left-wing leaders refused to answer. In the now familiar pattern, they tried to 'turn the witness chair into a soapbox, hurled accusations at the Congressmen, and got themselves thrown...
...know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished deceits-its effort to prettify death and to vulgarize love, and hence escape the impact...
Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved...