Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate from its unscientific trappings: Howard Hughes' demonstration of Trans World Airline's new "terrain avoidance" radar (TIME, May 12). It was a junket complete with movie starlets, sirens (the shrilling, not the rock-sitting variety), motorcycle cops, a "Miss Arizona Aviation," parties, and all the familiar Hollywood accessories. During the actual demonstration Leonard was not surprised to find himself seated next to Gossip Columnist Hedda Hopper, who, he reports, "didn't turn a hair during all this mountain-leaping...
...Hollywood Veteran Walter Brennan, homespun character actor for 20-odd years, considered cinemacting as a career: "I see 'em get the big car and the big house and the big head. Then they lose the big car and the big house and all they've got left is the big head...
History-and Hollywood film biographies-are full of painters who scrabbled for a living in obscure garrets, and became famous only when dead. But history and Hollywood pass over the many painters admired by all the world who later disappeared because their art lacked lasting power or because a generation lost interest...
When he got nervous, taciturn Lou Moore showed it by licking the right corner of his mouth. He had been nervous since the day in mid-October when he took the money from the mortgage on his North Hollywood, Calif, home and began building a pair of autos to win the Indianapolis 500-mile race. In seven months, he put $57,000 worth of bronze, aluminum and steel, each part laboriously hand-tooled, into his sleek four-cylinder front-wheel-drive beauties...
...Woman on the Beach (RKO Radio) is sullen-faced Joan Bennett, one of Hollywood's most efficient players of loose women, in an unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused some of his sins in this film. His sins are extensive and, for a movie hero, pretty human. He is engaged to a nice girl (Nan Leslie), but when she proves too nice and cautious to marry him in haste, he takes up with Joan, begins making love...