Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tampa, Fla., the University of Tampa decided to reward Hollywood Hero Tyrone Power with an honorary doctorate of humanities...
...Hollywood could never cast Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. in its stock role of the slouch-hatted, wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...
...Hollywood was still spending fancy money, but taking longer & longer about it. Harvey finally went to Universal-International in a record sale - a million dollars plus percentages; Born Yesterday to Columbia for a million flat; Annie Get Your Gun to M-G-M for $650,000. But only one of 1947-48's plays went for anything worth noting: Command Decision to M-G-M for a $100,000 down payment...
...Hollywood, which has spent millions in its quest for a simple, inexpensive color process, the invention of the Roux brothers seemed too good to be true. Moviemakers had seen too many processes come & go to get excited. But research cameramen have long worked to perfect a process in which the lens and not the film would be the principal color agent. Up to now, experiments with such lenses have not worked out commercially. Hollywood wanted to hear more...
Divorced. Mickey Rooney, 27, Hollywood's Hardy family perennial now grown to he-man's estate (Killer McCoy); by wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase Rooney, 21, whom he married when he was a private and she "Miss Birmingham"; after three years and eight months of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: $100,000 over ten years, $25,000 for a new house, $5,000 a year for the children...