Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With King Kong set to swing into 2,200 theaters and 17 countries, the great ape's publicity agents have been beating their drums with predictable frenzy. To celebrate the Paris opening, Paramount workers in Hollywood dismantled a 40-ft. Kong model used in the film, shipped it on trucks to New York, then by cargo jet to France. Last week while crowds gathered, the reassembled simian superstar lay in state halfway up the Champs-Elysées with all the grandeur of an embalmed potentate...
...invited to join them, if they have $200 to $500 to spare. Davis, 50, who was best man at her 1974 wedding to Jack Haley Jr., will share the spotlight with Liza, 30, singing, dancing and clowning in a 1½-hour cabaret act at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Bubbles Liza: "I've been dreaming about this ever since Sammy jumped onto the stage in the middle of my act at Harrah's in Tahoe a few years ago. We had a ball." Considering the tariff, Diplomat revelers can only hope they will...
...values have been corrupted. For him, the big names and big numbers, presented as a choppy blow-by-blow account of the making and breaking of movie contracts, is enough of a story. Beside some embarassing moments following Fitzgerald's drinking bouts, Dardis rarely mentions how living in Hollywood affected the writers' daily lives. Nor, except for a brief description of a bookstore where they congregated, does Dardis's interest in the writers' impact on Hollywood penetrate more than skin deep...
Although the most worthwhile portions of Some Time in the Sun are probably the excerpts from the film scripts themselves, the book will probably end up on many Fitzgerald-in-Hollywood-in-the-30s fans' already crowded shelves. Instead of debunking it, Dardis's book only complicates the California myth. Apparently, not only Fitzgerald went west looking for gold...
...1950s as on the virtues of George Washington. Woody Allen stands up against the blacklist and prying Congressional Committees in The Front; Lillian Hellman provides her view of the period, often scathing, in Scoundrel Time; and a spate of books, articles and film has appeared dealing with the Hollywood Ten trial, the Hiss and Rosenberg cases. Professional historians are also now taking a closer look at McCarthyism and America's entry into the Cold...