Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedies of the 1930s and 40s. Though he is an explicitly non-political director Sturges's comedies constantly explode the key assumptions of American ideology. To explore their internal contradictions, they use absurd resolutions to undercut both their standard form and premises. He thus stands in direct contrast with Hollywood comedy directors, especially Frank Capra, whose work always ended up uncritically reaffirming the nostrums of American ideology. Though Sturges's other films, such as The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story, and Christmas in July say more about problems like the American Dream, virtue in American politics, and the connection...
...Girl Friday. I feel that I should include at least one Hollywood comedy whose perspective is ultimately uncritical, since these are among my favorite types, and this Howard Hawks film about journalism is one of the best of the genre. Starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel, the film sets up an unresolveable conflict and proceeds to resolve it romantically (though at the cost of turning Russell into "one of the boys.") Nevertheless, the film's hysterical pace betrays its sensitivity to real emotional conflicts, as well as Hawk's attachment to the male professional communities of irrational shared value which...
...Connors well on television, he was no longer much of a hero. He and his agent then split. The trend toward the athlete as superhero may work for a few, but carried too far it will selfdestruct. The stars themselves, not Louis B. Mayer, killed the star system in Hollywood...
...Hollywood method has come to the home screen and quickly grown into a full-fledged entertainment movement. TV versions of Taylor Caldwell's Captains and the Kings, Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers and Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle have been aired in the past few months, and at least a dozen more books are moving from the bestseller lists onto the tube...
Tired of Sex. That would be about in line with his record so far. Dayton, at 35, heads Doty-Dayton Productions, a Hollywood company that in four years has turned out five movies, and all profitable-a phenomenal performance by the standards of cinema finance. The company now is releasing as many films, counting its own flicks and pickups from other producers, as Walt Disney Productions. Though there is a belief in Hollywood that people who clamor for cleaner movies do not go to them, Dayton says: "There is an audience out there that is getting tired of sex scenes...