Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the average restaurant operator was developing ulcers, anxiety and severe tension. Most of them piously -and some even happily-guaranteed compliance. Hollywood's phony prince, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff (who sometimes allows his bulldog to sit up at the table with him and eat meat), said: "I will do anything to avoid the horrors of rationing." Some did it glumly. Manhattan's famed steak house, Gallagher's, closed on Tuesday, ran a newspaper ad which read:, "No Steaks, No Gallagher's." But in most cases it was not quite that simple...
Tyrone Power, hopping around Africa spreading good will for Hollywood, got nice accommodations in Addis Ababa. His host: Haile Selassie...
...quit high school to play piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin...
...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become...
Certainly first on a long list of totally impossible features (which includes acting, plot, direction, and even the title) is Greer Garson, an old Hollywood warhorse who still seems to be trading on her "Mrs. Miniver" Oscar. Miss Garson in "Desire Me" gives one of the finest exhibitions on record of the old, or Smithfield variety of acting. She uses all the ancient tricks of the trade the mobile eyebrows; the long, significant pauses; the staring eyes; the mighty gasps of emotion. In fact, she can't even stand still and listen without overacting...