Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three weeks of droning around Central America in his Lockheed Lodestar, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, his wife, a maid, a secretary and two pilots last week headed for Hollywood...
...Colonel remembered that Columnist Hedda Hopper, an employee of his Chicago Tribune-Daily News syndicate, had long promised to open his eyes if he would visit the gilded city. On his one trip to Hollywood, 15 years ago, it had rained constantly and he had since thought of the town, if at all, as a damp offshoot of the Land of Oz. But he still liked to have his eyes opened...
...presentation of Oscars - Hollywood's annual pat on the back to itself-has to be seen to be believed. TIME Correspondent Dwight Whitney, who saw it last week, fought his way through acres of diamonds, mink and glossy black limousines to report...
When the evening ended, Hollywood had not exactly proved, even to itself, that it was really good in 1946. But it had proved that the Academy vote is nowadays reasonably free from political pressure. There was a time when it was possible for two majors to gang up on one independent (like Samuel Goldwyn) and deal him right out the back door...
...really good movies, like really good literature, are never so "literary" as this or so full of highly polished posturings. Director Lewin also sets himself the impossible task of trying to clean up a naughty story for the family trade. Because adultery is taboo to Hollywood's censors, Angela Lansbury is represented as a widow and Mr. Sanders does not take up with Miss Dvorak until she is a widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part...