Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of grinding through Bronx traffic, Busdriver William Cimillo was seized with a desire to change the scene. Switching the destination sign on his employer's new $18,000 bus from "Subway" to "Special," he lit out for New Jersey, kept going for 1,350 miles to Hollywood, Fla., ended up at the race track and in need of money-for which he wired his boss. But the boss wouldn't even let him drive the bus back...
...handouts and libraries have made OIC a real threat to the Russian propaganda monopoly-and once caused Marshal Tito to close the U.S. libraries in Belgrade. Italy hungers for Americana, despite the confusion it feels after reading Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passes and Faulkner in the libraries, and then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because "it proposes before anything else to discredit the U.S.S.R...
...fancy is now in full sway. Relies of Dies Committee days are back at their old stand on Capitol Hill, several state legislatures, including Massachusetts, are operating up-to-date star chambers, and in words strangely reminiscent of the days when Shirley Temple was labelled a dangerous red, Hollywood has been threatened with now investigations. Only the Cincinnati baseball team has escaped censure. Pounded for years from press and pulpit, the American public has allowed itself to approve the red-hunting game one which can do more harm to the United States than to any Communists caught in the process...
Discarding the Hollywood leer in its attitude toward sex. "Children of Paradise" is refreshing in its humorous frankness. The characters, all well-acted, reach three-dimensionality through a characteristically French depth and intensity of emotion. The tenuousness of the plot is also increased by the cutting, which leaves the motivation for the climax a little too thin to be convincing...
...screen. There is hardly a point that Hemingway made in this savage, complex communique about the war between the sexes that Korda and his actors fail to make in movie terms. In fact, a good 95% of Macomber is a remarkably exciting picture for mature audiences. The worst of Hollywood's "improvements" on the original story is the did-she-or-didn't-she ending, which pulls the fuse out of Hemingway's whole payoff...