Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll was taken in Hollywood on the question as to whether too many adjectives were being used over the radio. Results...
...Touchstone for Hollywood...
According to this principle, the Hollywood industries are rapidly and disastrously departing farther & farther from motion-picture art, which had almost reached maturity before the advent of the sound. Talk all you want, but let the screen action be always fully clear and understandable even if all the talk is canceled...
Until the appearance of "Crossfire" a few months age, Hollywood carefully avoided the subject of anti-semitism. "Crossfire" was a story of violence and hate that was hardly close to the experience of most movie audiences. "Gentleman's Agreement," the second outspoken attack on anti-semitism, shows the thing in almost every one of its usual forms: The hero, who for a few months pretends to be a Jew, discovers it in his finance as well as in a hotel manager, and in Jews themselves as well as in Christians...
...upholstered cellars came Funnyman Danny Thomas to make his big pitch at radio. What with his howling nightclub fans and his recent success in MGM's Unfinished Dance, his pink stucco Hollywood house and his red Lincoln, Thomas is already so well equipped that he is not too nervous over the success of his new radio show (Fri. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T., CBS). On the air last week, radio listeners lost some of the Thomas appeal that nightclubbers admire: the calflike face, the eloquent hands, the prehensile nose ("If you're going to have a nose," he challenges...