Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprecedented criticism of Moody's stems indirectly from letters written to various public officials-including Moody's President John Lockton-by Arthur Cohen, a Hollywood, Fla., businessman who holds $50,000 worth of New York City notes. Cohen was furious about the state's decision to put a moratorium on payment of principal of outstanding city notes. In one of his latest letters to Lockton, Cohen charged that New York Governor Hugh Carey "and his legislative colleagues have perpetrated what amounts to one of the biggest fraudulent acts" in U.S. history. He further claimed that challenges...
...North Hollywood, Calif...
...father, the redoubtable producer-director Mervyn LeRoy. dispatched Dorothy and Toto down that yellow brick road to see the Wizard. He is also the grandson and namesake of Harry Warner, founder of Warner Bros. By dual seignorial right, he grew up in the studios and back lots of Hollywood. "I had the whole world there," LeRoy recalls. "I could go around the corner and be in Singapore. Around another corner I was in Paris, and around another in the Land...
Some of the changes they found in their classmates are outright amazing. A high school quarterback is now a masseur in Hollywood, preaching the tenets of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. A student whom everyone else describes as totally lacking in social graces (each biography includes short descriptions of the subject by other people described in the book) lived at the time the book was put together on a small island in Micronesia. A woman who told Time, "You can't marry anyone important without going to college" is now a criminal prosecutor. Another woman, described by her classmate...
Later, Kosinski said, he attended a Hollywood cocktail party where he was accosted by a successful screenwriter who knew his work and was invited to the man's home. There the screenwriter showed him file boxes of scenes, all purloined from different books. Kosinski had met the man who had stolen his blurb...