Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future of documentary films has reverted to its prewar prospects [TIME, Jan. 28]; Hollywood, an ordinarily shrewd prognosticator, will be surprised to get the facts tardily. Not only the inception of television film-producing units here, with their immense potentialities for factual and instructional production on film (much of which will become available for those 35,000 nontheatrical projectors which you mention), but the huge backlogs of orders on the books of the manufacturers of 16-millimeter projectors, indicate bigger and happier minnie-movie audiences in the home, church, club group, recreation hall and other 16-millimeter stands...
...Hollywood...
...irreverent New York Daily News suggested: "Why not put the UNO world capital in the northwest corner of Mexico . . . somewhere in the neighborhood of the famous Mexican towns of Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Mexicali (Mexicali Rose, I Love You), and Ensenada? . . . [This] would be close to Hollywood, through whose portals pass the most beautiful blondes, brunettes and redheads. The younger and handsomer of the UNO male secretaries could spend alternate weekends in Hollywood and Mexico, entertaining and being entertained...
...needy in Europe (1½ million tons since the end of the war), money to UNRRA ($320 millions already given, $320 millions more promised). They did not understand why the Treasury could not have allotted to dried eggs the $80 millions it allowed last year for purchase of Hollywood films. (Angry housewives cried: "We don't want Frank Sinatra. We want food.") Still less did they understand why their Labor Government had been less frank with them than Tory Churchill had been in wartime. Belatedly conscious of the need to take democracy into his confidence, Sir Ben Smith...
Will Rogers Jr., 35, set out to add to the U.S. scene a new kind of public character: a U.S. Senator who was also a Hollywood star. Ex-Congressman Rogers (who resigned to join the Army in 1944) prepared to: 1) run for Senator from California; 2) play the title role in a Warner Bros, movie about his late, gum-chewing, rope-twirling father...