Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1938, I came upon Miss Hopper during one of my trips to Hollywood. She was playing in a Paramount picture, Thanks for the Memory, and agonizing through her first columns. Even at that time, as you can see from the enclosed picture, Hedda's typewriter had gone to her head...
Howard Hughes, the Hollywood playboy and planemaker, about whom the public had heard very much but actually knew very little, was late for his date with the Senate War Investigating subcommittee. Sensing the crowd's restiveness, Homer Ferguson announced reassuringly: "Mr. Hughes will be here." The hubbub quieted...
...contemplate that anyone who has been in public life as long as I have-in the State Legislature, as Governor, in the House and Senate-could, on such short acquaintance and in one short meeting, make so bald a proposition as he describes. It sounds a little more like Hollywood than Washington. I can assure you that I never...
...episodes of evil. O'Hara is an expert at ugly moments, probably the best expert in contemporary U.S. writing. Like many of his stones, these have such painful audibility that they make life itself seem an ugly moment unduly prolonged. The figures in his Inferno are mainly Broadway, Hollywood and resort people with a few professional criminals thrown...
...this smart, sad and savage world, a nightclub owner automatically becomes a pimp for a big Hollywood producer, a small-time gangster messes up a chorus girl's marriage by re-seducing her for the sake of a hideout, a playboy is murdered politely by the man whose girl he makes a pass at. Just as ugly are other stories in which a drunken father fills his son with cold shame, a cynical screenwriter deceives a horrible adolescent, a beautiful but unbearable white girl from Texas tries to make trouble in a Harlem nightspot...