Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of surprise, even contradiction, in his work. He often mocked the traditions of art-and of just about anything else -that stood in the way of what was possibly his greatest creation: his indomitable individuality. A resident of Paris since 1921 (except for a ten-year stretch in Hollywood starting in 1940), Ray was most successful as a photographer. His other work included Rayographs (images made by placing objects directly on photosensitive paper), startling constructions built out of everyday items (such as a flatiron studded with a row of tacks), and paintings, about which he was the most serious...
...Hollywood On Trial...
Eating Grass. Stallone is doing all he can for the new machismo. He has a will that seems more than a match for Hollywood. Producer Irwin Winkler (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) says, "I still can't believe I did it. I mortgaged my house to put up the $50,000 completion bond for Rocky." Winkler and Coproducer Robert Chartoff were stunned when Stallone insisted on playing the title role himself-and got his way, although he had $104 in the bank at the time. He remembers telling his wife Sasha: "If you don't mind...
...says Meta Carpenter Wilde, 69, recalling her 18-year romance with Novelist William Faulkner. From the day they met in 1935, when she was a script girl and he an impoverished, hard-drinking writer trying to earn some money in the movies, the pair kept their passion one of Hollywood's quietest affairs. Now Meta is telling all, both in November's Los Angeles magazine and an upcoming book titled A Loving Gentleman. "He wanted me whenever I was willing to go with him to his hotel room," she remembers. "Bill kept hinting that one day he would...
There's just no way to beat the devil, judging from the number of spook-and-demon movies now brewing in Hollywood. Not only will Actress Linda Blair soon make a spirited return in The Heretic-Exorcist II, but Producer Harvey Bernhard has agreed to work on three sequels to The Omen, his picture about a devilish four-year-old named Damien. The Omen has pulled $50 million into U.S. and Canadian box offices since its release, and so Bernhard plans to bring Damien back as a twelve-year-old, a young man and a Western leader who guides...