Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Screen Writers Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, who had been found guilty of contempt by District of Columbia juries, were each sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $1,000. The other eight of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"-who had also refused to answer when asked whether or not they were Communists-waived jury trials. They agreed to rest their fate on the outcome of appeals to higher courts by Trumbo and Lawson...
...from Oona. He had flown into Los Angeles saying, "I have come in the interests of peace." California was not like the Middle West, which had received its native lowan for the most part with austere interest. In Hollywood, pink-hued stars turned out to welcome him with huzzas. Film Director William Wyler entertained him. A capacity crowd of 30,000 filled Gilmore Stadium to cheer him. Contributions rolled in. Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona signed a check...
When Pianist-Conductor Jacques Rachmilovich arrived in the U.S. eight years ago, he was almost broke. For a while, he worked in a Los Angeles gas station. In his spare time he took over (without pay) the baton of a nameless group of Hollywood movie musicians who were so bored with stop & go script music that they banded together to play, once a week, some piece of music all the way through...
...movie studios, which have first call on his musicians, are his biggest worry. His favorite Hollywood story: "Only a tympanist was present for all four rehearsals before an important concert. When the conductor congratulated him, he said 'Thank you, Maestro-but I'm afraid I can't make the performance...
...Jimmy looks like a well-fed friar. But he talks like a bobbysoxer. "In this business," says he, "you gotta stay contemporary. You gotta know what the kids are saying, and feel the rhythm they live by." To keep the rhythm, Jimmy still drops around to four or five Hollywood hotspots every night, waving cheery greetings to movie stars and bartenders. When bandleaders see him coming, they strike up his latest tunes. Jimmy, his own best pressagent, may sit down at the piano and play a few himself...