Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pumping Iron was a low budget film and director-producer Butler is not a major film figure. Last September, after the film was rejected by several Hollywood studios, Bobby Zarem, a New York press agent, started pushing it and Schwarzenegger. Chic crowds have frequented the openings in New York and Boston (at the fashionable Institute of Contemporary Art). Schwarzenegger, who aspires to an acting career, has even had his portrait done by Jamie Wyeth. Financially, Pumping Iron is doing quite well...
...though he remains a bachelor and currently lives alone. In his spare moments he is working on the film scenario of Sexual Perversity and a new adaptation of the old Alec Guinness film, Last Holiday. The theater is his first love, however, and he has no intention of going Hollywood in any big way. "I don't want to break into the movies," he insists. "Who's got the time...
...Hollywood screenwriter (David Ackroyd) is writing a movie about Isadora Duncan, the free-spirited mother of modern dance. While the screenwriter types out her life at the rear of the stage...
...beginning, Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association and the closest thing Washington has to a movie mogul, says that so far 'I'd give him an A.' Valenti believes he knows a good star when he sees one, having not only scanned Hollywood's best but also served in Lyndon Johnson's White House. 'Politics is mounted on symbols,' he says. 'Every successful political captain knows it, by God! A President signals to the people what he wants by symbolic acts...
...Freddie saw nothing around that would satisfy him. He would ask me, 'Is this what it is? Is this what it's all about?' He'd say, 'I can't go out now, I can't walk around.' " The hokiness of Hollywood fame got to him too. He would say, 'Even my friendships are related to ratings...