Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York State party, on the arm of Governor Hugh Carey, Teddy at a dinner to honor Hubert Humphrey at the Mayflower Hotel). But considering that this was a Democratic Inaugural, the members of that sizable clan seemed most notable for their absence throughout the week. Most in evidence were Hollywood stars, athletes, musicians-and Georgians...
...blowing in from the Mojave Desert. Or a kind of Morse code flashed out by the traffic lights along Sunset Boulevard. Or maybe John Galley, head of production at Warner Bros., has the answer. "At best," he says, "this business is a crap shoot." Whatever the reason, each year Hollywood producers put their money on only two or three numbers-two or three kinds of movies. The themes for 1977: war, jocks and women...
COMBAT. Though they have traditionally been popular in Hollywood, war movies were eclipsed for a decade or more by the divisive reality of the war in Viet Nam, seen live and in color every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora...
Women, who dominated the screens in the '30s and '40s, still make Hollywood a little nervous, however. "It has yet to be proven that there's a market for strong female roles," says Paramount Executive Richard Sylbert. "Traditionally, women go to the movies to see Robert Redford and Paul Newman. But maybe times are changing." Producer Dan Melnick takes a somewhat more optimistic view: "If a few of these pictures do very well at the box office, we may rediscover the 1940s all over again...
...carrying a horsewhip. The cute brute of the moment is Dominic Challenger, hero of a new novel called Wicked Loving Lies that sold close to 3 million copies in the first month of publication and forms the leading edge of a new wave of mass literary entertainment. Abandoned by Hollywood as too corny and too expensive to produce, shunned by television as unsuitable for the small screen, the costume epic is taking over the bookstalls. Not since the desperate '30s and wartime '40s brought forth Anthony Adverse, Gone With the Wind and Forever Amber have U.S. readers attempted...