Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beamed fondly at one another. Said Wilson admiringly: "Johnston was a tougher negotiator than the Russians." Said Johnston of Socialist Wilson: "Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest surge of production in Hollywood's history...
Though the 75% tax is abolished, Hollywood will not be able to take any more money out of Britain than-before. Out of a $68 million U.S. take at the British box office (1946 figure), the tax would have left Hollywood a maximum of $17 million; the new agreement places a $17 million limit on the amount of profits which can be taken out in dollars. All profits above that must be kept in Britain in nonconvertible sterling. Hollywood can invest this money in British-made pictures* or in whatever enterprises a special U.S.-British board will approve...
...Hollywood can also take out as many dollars, above the $17 million limit, as British films earn in the U.S. (in 1947 they earned $4 million). But even here Wilson had won a canny advantage. U.S. producer-exhibitors for the first time would have an interest in promoting British films in the U.S., because that would help them get more dollars out of England...
...nearest movie house. He emerged spellbound, exclaiming: "My dear, it was wonderful! That splendid detective! . . . And those policemen on motorcycles, actually shooting at 60 miles an hour. So clever of them. And the brave man who jumped on to the moving train. . . ." Thenceforth, mad Lord Orris adored everything from Hollywood-except Walt Disney cartoons, which he said fretfully were "too much like real life...
John Moore's studies of men and manners in the Cotswolds, as presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey...