Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's latest wrinkles is the practice of slapping together dozens of new producing units to operate under the guise of independent companies, mainly as a tax reduction scheme. One of these post-war babies is an outfit going under the rather meaningless title of Nero Films, and their first effort is now on the market, to no one's particular advantage. Obviously, these gentlemen have seen a picture called "Notorious" a couple of times, and have consequently attempted a watered-down version of the Hitchcock formula...
...figured to earn his millions back-plus a sizable profit. Box-office returns in Los Angeles, where Duel has been showing simultaneously in two theaters for the last couple of months (and is reportedly outgrossing Gone With the Wind by some 34%) indicate that Mr. Selznick may well be Hollywood's smartest businessman...
Duel's promotion campaign-which includes practically every trick imaginable, from dropping 5,000 parachutes at the Kentucky Derby to beach stickers which spell out the title on sunburned skin-makes Hollywood's normally brassy efforts in this line look pale. Duel is currently showing only in Los Angeles; the plan is to blanket the country, area by area, during the spring and summer, releasing some 350 prints before fall. Reasons for the distribution delay: 1) labor troubles have delayed Technicolor processing; 2) difficulties with United Artists have forced Mr. Selznick to set up his own distribution machinery...
...Hollywood has been saying, with some bitterness, that Duel's censorship troubles come at a bad time, for everybody in pictures. Through the Legion of Decency, the Catholic Church can pledge some 24 million Catholics to avoid the picture if it disapproves. Protestants and Jews in the Los Angeles area have also questioned Duel's morals. Now an aroused group of churchmen, including all denominations, seems to be shifting the offensive to include not only Hollywood's public product, but also Hollywood's private life (TIME, March...
...triumphal speaking tours. Another group of disciples, U.S. businessmen, built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white and gold . . . with a quaint wishing-well...