Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening dinner Miss Taylor will again turn Mater Advocata over to President Donald B. Watt '47 as she returns to the comparative peace of Hollywood...
...fail to find the funny bone of any reader. It is a collection of 71 short articles, some of which appeared in print almost two decades ago, and it covers a vast expanse of human experience--pigeons, hiccoughs, botany exams, poker, bisons, thunderstorms, truffle poisoning, colds, culture, love in Hollywood, phobias, Schistosomiasis, etc., ad infinitum...
...failures to become contaminated by the sordid world of sin, sex, and Scotch. Fresh from a college "notorious for its high living"--remember this is Benchley's story and things have changed since then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over an ice cream soda at the Y.M.C.A...
Kiss of Death (20th Century-Fox) illustrates a new and vigorous trend in U.S. moviemaking. One of the best things that is happening in Hollywood is the tendency to move out of the place-to base fictional pictures on fact, and, more importantly, to shoot them not in painted studio sets but in actual places. In making this kind of realistic "locale" movie, 20th Century-Fox has been the leader-with The House on 92nd St., 13 Rue Madeleine and Boomerang...
...fascinating. They were well photographed (by Norbert Brodine) entirely in actual surroundings-Manhattan's Tombs, Sing Sing, an orphanage, Manhattan's streets and tenements and dives, even a Chrysler Building elevator-with none of the overhead lights which bathe all possible reality out of most Hollywood movies...