Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date. In his week of hard work, he talked with three dozen official visitors, held a Cabinet meeting, discussed legislation for the new Congress with five Senators, touched on subjects that ranged from Europe's progress to plans for repairing the White House (he wanted no "Hollywood touches," no deviation from its original design inside...
...legislation, he sandwiched in a few minutes with Movie Producer George Jessel, who came to present a copy of a song he had written (with two tunesmiths) for Harry Truman.* It will be dedicated to the President at a Democratic rally in Los Angeles next week. Reported Jessel: "In Hollywood, everyone has decided he's a Democrat again...
...Hollywood, a sculptor named Yucca Salamunich, after carefully considering the subject of legs, was ready to make a generality: "Yunnhh! Hollywood con nects legs with sex. Legs have beauty for other reasons." Specifically, Salamunich had prepared a list of legs he admires...
This week, big NBC had the look of a dazed Goliath beset by a nimble David. After a back & forth battle that raged for weeks in the secret conference rooms of Manhattan and Hollywood, CBS had successfully made away with the comedy show that has been an NBC mainstay for more than 16 years: Jack Benny...
Here is a two-and-a-half hour cliche out of Hollywood, and it's in technicolor. Everything breathtaking that has ever been done before pops up in it sooner or later. But "The Three Musketeers" goes to such ludicrous extremes that it is hilarious. Every time something violent is about to come off, a short effective thunderstorm bursts upon the scene. The heroes are always smiling, and the villains always scowl. Nary a musketeer is scratched, while red-coated fiends are run through by the score. This all sounds tiresome, but the players operate with such incredible gusto that...