Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theater history, but, relatively retired from the scene, they don't want to talk about details. The viewpoint of their retrospective is not the incisive one of the Vanguard days; the ups and downs of working with movie personalities are shown as fairly level. Occasionally the tensions of Hollywood or Broadway emerged onstage. "We knew this was going to be a big one," said Green introducing a number, "because our dear friend Lena Horne was going to sing it. Now we'd like to sing the song as it was sung on opening night by Dorothy...
...McDonald & Little started in 1969 in Atlanta as a three-member (two principals and a secretary) advertising agency. As late as 1973 its billings were $6.3 million; this year they are expected to hit $30 million. In 1975 the agency picked up three Clios, the advertising equivalents of Hollywood Oscars. Last week it swiped Coca-Cola's national Fresca account from New York-based Interpublic...
Almost forty years have passed since Scarlett O'Hara, spurned by Rhett Butler, sat down on the stairway of her Atlanta house to mull over the future. Now, at last, Scarlett's petty-paced tomorrow is about to dawn-in a new novel and movie. Hollywood Producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown have won the right to produce a movie sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic tale of the Old South, Gone With the Wind...
...Hollywood movies of the '30s and '40s left no doubt about the Southern woman: she was a Jezebel. In fact, the traditional problem is not rebellion but "niceness," or what Journalist Florence King calls "the compulsive need to be sweet." A Southern woman is obliged to smooth over all social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native...
Lear's other new sitcom, The Nancy Walker Show, has the inspired notion of casting the crafty comedienne as a high-powered Hollywood agent married to a Navy officer who decides to retire from the sea. (Lear's low regard for TV brass is reflected in the character of a network executive whose eight-year-old son makes all his programming decisions.) A likely...