Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Script, once a magazine for Hollywood intellectuals, was revived 14 months ago by bouncy Robert L. Smith, carnation-sporting general manager of the Los Angeles Daily News. As a regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
...those musicals where expense is no object, and presumably entertainment isn't one either. Bits of the dancing aside, it offers $200,000 worth of tedious bad taste about a young man who plays the heroine in a varsity show; his picture (submitted as a prank) wins a Hollywood beauty contest...
Cried one Hollywoodian: "We've been hit on the head with a baseball bat." He could have made it stronger. Hollywood's major studios were hit on the head last week by an assortment of baseball bats, and they were swung by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley Co. Also sued was Schine Theater...
...years Hollywood stalled off judgment day by consent decrees (which later lapsed) and legal shadow boxing in the lower courts. But last week, when the final decisions in four cases came in the Supreme Court, antitrust won almost all its points. The court...