Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oilman Glenn McCarthy's little hootenanny, opening his $21 million Shamrock hotel (TIME, March 21), turned St. Patrick's Day in Houston into a Donnybrook. McCarthy's 2,500 guests (200 of them from Hollywood) milled past dinner-jacketed newsboys at the entrance, stripped the lobby's $1,000 orchid-studded trees bare, guzzled 1,200 bottles of champagne before the banquet. Shamrocks bloomed everywhere-on ashtrays, wastebaskets, even on the panties and bras that McCarthy presented to his women guests. (The men got cowboy boots from the hides of prize cattle that provided the steaks...
...glamor girl, retired Geraldine Farrar, 67. In a glowing fan letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...
Stealing a one-week march on the Academy Awards, Hollywood's Foreign Correspondents' Association named 1948's best screen performers: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) and Sir Laurence Olivier (Hamlet...
...Great Hour (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS-ABC-Mutual). Appeal for the interdenominational drive for $10 million for world relief, featuring President Truman and Hollywood stars (see RELIGION...
...Hollywood may shout about a movie and New York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...