Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardly Wait." There was nothing stuffy about Peter Marshall, even when he thundered from the pulpit against liquor, sexy magazine pictures, and Hollywood divorces. He wore tweed jackets, polo shirts and bright ties, chain-smoked cigarettes and once surprised some elderly churchwomen by banging on a piano and singing Oh, You Beautiful Doll. A member of no party, he called himself "progressive and liberal." At times his philosophy was reflected in pointed prayers before the Senate. Marshall once implored: "Help us to care, as Thou dost care, for the little people who have no lobbyists, for the minority groups...
About ten years ago, Clifford Odets, having apparently written himself out of the Bronx, went to Hollywood. This was a cause for dismay among the people who hailed him as the Golden Boy of the Thirties, the man who brought a fresh, now and vibrant voice to the theater, a voice that spoke out for the underprivileged. But the author of "Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing," and "Golden Boy" remained in Hollywood, writing scenarios and letting out an occasional yelp about "every motion-picture being cut on the stone floor of a Wall Street bank." This was paltry assurance...
Charlie Castle worked his way through college, got on Broadway where critics called him "The Van Gogh of the American Stage" because he acted with a "kind of Christian fervor." Then Charlie went out to Hollywood where he became the biggest star in pictures. He marries a girl he loves, who loves him, and whom he admires because she's of the landed aristocracy...
...then something happens to Charlie and their marriage. He gets to thinking where it's all leading, fed-up with the hypocrisy and inward rottenness of the moguls out there who cut out, like cookies, America's culture, morality, and dreams. So he tries to leave Hollywood but can't, because he once killed someone and might be exposed by the studio...
...Knife" will probably get some needed whetting during the next two weeks and possibly the deletion of some superflous Odetean spokesmen. It is good Odets now, brash, excessive, spelling out hell for Hollywood in neon...