Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competed with oxcarts, with bicycles thick as gnats. Tooting streetcars fairly bulged with grinning Koreans, all in white. Pedestrians gave ground to nothing on wheels; they did not walk like conquered men. In twisted alleys and along the teeming Bun Chung, G.I.s shopped for kimonos. In the "Grill Room Hollywood" they made faces over the villainous brandy. At the "International Cultural Association" they danced (at two yen a dance) with slack-clad Kihsang girls. Over & over, the eleven-piece band played My Blue Heaven...
Theatre operators, Hollywood's distributors, don't like war pictures these days, and neither "The True Glory" nor "The Way Ahead" is getting the attention it deserves. They're not good box-office, but they should be required movie-going for everyone who can get no closer to war than a seat in a theatre...
...Hollywood neither wanted nor expected him to be King Heron; it was just that all the frogs in the swamp were good & tired of King...
...search for a successor had been started back in 1941. At that time a Senatorial investigation had put Hollywood on the worst spot in its history, yet Hays came up with no aggressive ideas to beat off the attack. The industry, realizing that the chips were down, hired the late, great Wendell Lewis Willkie as defense counsel. Willkie was eminently successful. Hays, realizing that he was on the skids, tried to save the job he had held since the office was founded in 1922. But last June his authority fell completely when Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. became the first major...
...waiting in Hollywood to return to his French home, Autobiographer Service is in no rush to bring his reminiscences up to date. (Ploughman of the Moon is only the first half of Robert Service's autobiography. He ends it as he sets off for the Balkans as a pre-World War I correspondent for the Toronto Star.) He is "only 70." "If I am allowed," he says, "I may write the second half of my life when I am 80. Perhaps it will be the more interesting...