Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Hollywood. Yes, I know most writers say they don't like Hollywood. That's because it's fashionable not to like Hollywood. But I like...
...clown's clown. The late Robert Benchley called him "the greatest satirist" in the U.S. The men who make the public laugh-Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Jack Benny-split their sides laughing when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy show (Holiday & Co.) on which he will...
...evening at a Hollywood party, Songwriter Frank Loesser (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) saw Burrows at the piano, ad-libbing caustic caricatures of prominent guests and singing parodies of popular songs. After that evening, due to Loesser's ballyhooing, Abe had little time for work. He was invited to more parties than he could attend. As soon as he arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory...
Request Performance is a success because the actors themselves have a stake in it. The program was started and is owned by the Masquers Club, whose members are Hollywood stars. Campbell Soup pays them $15,000 a week. Much of the credit goes to Writers Jerome Lawrence, 30, and Robert E. Lee, 27, both from Armed Forces Radio and full of fizz and vinegar. Lee and Lawrence have faithfully heeded some 5,000-a-week listeners' requests, personally answered impossible pleas such as finding apartments or proposing marriage...
...story is an odd hodgepodge of farce and parable, derived-almost by brute force-from Clyde Brion Davis' novel, The Anointed. The novel recounted the modest adventures of a philosophical sailor named Harry Patterson. As transmuted by the Hollywood alchemists, Harry Patterson becomes Clark Gable, a noisy, sociable bosun, while the seagoing philosopher is a broken-down Irish deck hand (Thomas Mitchell). Trouble begins when the two of them drift into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian...