Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doyle Hollywood...
...Francois Truffaut, 44, considering his film role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Having coped with heavier duties as a director (Jules and Jim, The Story of Adele H.), Truffaut is now appearing in his first American movie as an actor, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, 28, Hollywood's hottest prodigy (Jaws). The new film, which depicts an encounter between earthlings and extraterrestrial beings, is being shot in elaborate secrecy at an abandoned Air Force hangar in Mobile, Ala. So far the secrecy seems to suit Spielberg just fine. "Directing a movie with Truffaut...
...Franco Rossellini. Still, in a rare lapse from his usual impermeable poise, the screenwriter confessed, "Control entails responsibility, and sometimes I just don't know what's going on." Vidal expects his appearance on TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which he will film in Hollywood next month, will prove less perplexing. "To understand Mary Hartman is to understand America," he said. "If Tiberius had watched the show, he would still be alive today...
...from Hollywood ... The Melvin Dummar Story! Melvin Dummar? Isn't he that Utah gas station owner who says he gave Howard Hughes a ride one day, and then turned up as a beneficiary in one of the late industrialist's alleged wills? The same. Producer Art Linson has signed up Oscar-Winning Scriptwriter Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and says he hopes to start filming Dummar's life story later this year. "They're already three weeks behind schedule," grumbles Melvin, who had volunteered to play himself on the screen. Instead...
...Williams looks more and more like Hollywood's first black matinee idol. Each week he receives nearly 8,000 letters, mostly from women-white and black-who love his almost boyish good looks and sloping fullback's shoulders. In Savannah, Ga., last summer the tactical police were called upon to cool the ardor of female fans who threw themselves and their phone numbers at Williams during the filming of The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, a surprise summer hit about the black baseball leagues of the 1930s. Says Sidney Furie, who directed Williams...