Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taylor's hard-nosed style did not go over well with the people making TV films, either. Says a Hollywood executive: "Producers and stars are generally individualistic. They don't respond well to corporate thinking. Taylor wasn't easy with the people out here." Taylor also irked newsmen by lecturing them on freedom of the press. When his managers objected to his attempts to be what one calls "a conscience of the industry," he overrode them...
...undercut his sense of success. From his early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make the most money. In failing to understand Fitzgerald's disillusionment, Dardis' study falls short...
...closing the Fitzgerald section of his book. His description of Stanley Rose, the "flamboyant, self-styled con man," who ran a book shop frequented by many of the writers and who himself finally went straight, becoming a literary agent, is almost satisfying. And for a further depiction of the Hollywood scene, Dardis is wise enough to rely on Faulkner's observations rather than his own patchy reporting...
Both Fitzgerald and Faulkner, along with their less disillusioned colleague, Aldous Huxley, would have been surprised to learn that a few years after Faulkner made these remarks, two writers again turned toward Hollywood in search of the American ideal. Nathaniel West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the images of silver screen gangster sagas to flicks like The Black Coin where a young hero, wearing a white sweater, is attacked regularly by four burly men in black, turned the ideal upside down. In The Day of the Locust America became a Hollywood burlesque...
Delicately pretty, O'Neil has been in the business only a few months, yet already she holds the record for the highest stunt fall by a woman (105 ft.) and is considered among the best of the 40 stunt women in Hollywood. Says Loren Janes, a Hollywood stunt coordinator for 23 years: "She has developed in six months to a point that usually requires two to three years. She is very calm, cool and collected under pressure." Crashing through barriers in more ways than...