Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood & Religion...
...attempting to dramatize "the Christian way of life" along sectarian lines, external differences of religions are stressed at the expense of their common moral truths. . . . That organized religions should even consider it essential to use Hollywood as a press agent well typifies American "progress...
Starring Joan Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...
...will be universally recognized that the white house in the Hollywood hills in which this Symphony was written, and which was regarded by some as an ivory tower, was just as close to the core of a world at war as the place where Picasso painted Guernica...
Since 1940, Stravinsky has lived in his own house in Hollywood ("The only way to escape Hollywood is to live there"), where he composes in a Celotex-lined room. When he is not working he passes time with his rose gardens, four pairs of lovebirds and a friendly black cat who sleeps on the birds' cages. Though he has never written for films, he has composed for almost everything else. He wrote ballets for Ringling Brothers' Circus and for Billy Rose (Scenes de Ballet), a dissonantly reharmonized Star-Spangled Banner (to celebrate his U.S. citizenship...