Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hasn't. But Hollywood has proven can make good pictures from good stories honestly written...
...other question provoked such strong feeling among the authors. Dos Passos declared he wanted no part of Hollywood, bluntly accused it of "trashifying literature." Along with Hollywood he lumped "the best-seller system and the book clubs which tend to standardize reading tastes on a mediocre level. Writers go to Hollywood thinking they can improve the medium. They can't. The medium destroys them. The compromise always works to their detriment. This is particularly bad for talented young writers who can't resist Hollywood gold at a time when they would normally be struggling along on a shoestring...
White-haired Katherine Anne Porter had her first bid from Hollywood 25 years ago; she turned it down, but changed her mind 2½ years ago, when the movies tried a third time to get her. She spent 40 weeks working on two scripts; both have now been shelved. Says she: "I'll never do it again. The movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance...
...much has the big money of slicks, Hollywood, radio, etc., taken writers away from serious personal themes...
...writer-Hollywood combination capable of doing good literary work...