Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affable, has some rather short sighted social notions, and its portrait of an oppressive future society looks no more menacing than the California beach culture run riot. Everyone is bland and pretty, decked out for pleasure in outfits that look like togas designed by Frederick's of Hollywood. The special effects are rather more elaborate, but not necessarily more convincing. When our hero and heroine encounter a cuddlesome old hermit (Peter Ustinov) living on the outside in the gutted U.S. Capitol, they seem to be trapped in some unstable photographic solution, shifting in and out of focus...
Died. James Wong Howe, 76, Oscar-winning cinematographer (for The Rose Tattoo, 1955, and Hud, 1963); after a long illness; in Hollywood. Born in China and named Wong Tung Jim, the diminutive (5 ft.) Howe was so harassed by his Pasco, Wash., schoolmates that he became a professional prizefighter. Seeing a Mack Sennett comedy being filmed in the streets, he asked for a job as cameraman but was rejected as too small for heavy equipment; he eventually caught on as assistant to Cecil B. De-Mille. Noted for his constant efforts to achieve realism, Howe once filmed John Garfield...
...Hollywood is sky-high over the Israeli rescue of 104 hostages at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. "The mission reads like a movie script," rejoiced MCA President Sidney Sheinberg. Thus, only 72 hours after the commandos struck, the studios were plotting missions of their own-to see which would be the first onscreen with a film version. At Shein-berg's Universal Studio, where action and disaster epics (Earthquake, Midway and Airport) are house specialties, Producer-Director George Roy Hill is casting Rescue at Entebbe. Over at Paramount, Paddy Chayefsky has been signed to write the script for 90 Minutes...
...Broadway hits have never been renowned for their depth of characterization or for the dramatic thrust of their plots, Simon's breezy style and witty one-liners have kept audiences entertained and coming back for more. But now New Yorker Simon has relocated--he has gone west, to Hollywood, where he has written his first original screenplay, Murder by Death, an affectionate spoof of popular detective fiction, and something of a change from the more urbane, comedy of manners subject material of his earlier stage works. But like the plays, Murder by Death follows the Simon "formula"--lots of gloss...
...smoking con girl in Paper Moon, a hard-throwing Little League pitcher in The Bad News Bears. For her next number, Tatum O'Neal, all of 12, will dance back to the screen as a budding hoofer in Nickelodeon, Director Peter Bogdanovich's new film about 1920s Hollywood. Not to be outdone by Co-Star Jane Hitchcock, who once studied with Choreographer George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, Tatum took a six-week crash course in tap dancing before stepping into her new role. Sums up Tatum: "I guess it's much more practical...