Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initiative, welfare ahead of opportunity and to envelop life in a cocoon of red tape. It was the labyrinth of tax regulations administered by a stern bureaucracy that prompted the self-exile of one of Sweden's most creative citizens: Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, 58, who settled in Hollywood in April after suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by his arrest on tax-evasion charges. (The courts have yet to decide whether Bergman does indeed owe back taxes...
Desperate Scheme. The movie has to do with the efforts of a down-at-the-heels Hollywood director named Mel Funn (portrayed, inevitably, by Brooks himself) and his desperate scheme to save not just his own career but a major studio. Funn wants to make a silent movie, a comedy, of course. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) thinks Mel is nuts, but Mel, a pro, counters with the one blandishment proved irresistible to moguls on the ropes - movie stars. What if Funn and his two buddies (Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) are able to round up some of Hollywood...
This month a parapsychologist and ghostwriter named Hans Holzer (Haunted Hollywood', The Phantoms of Dixie) is bringing forth a new ectoplasmic epic full of patriots and poltergeists called-what else?-The Spirits of 76. On July 1 a clever adman named Paul Foley will launch a confection entitled Fresh Views of the American Revolution. Foley's text is snappy but traditional. The fresh views turn out to be 19 brand-new, genuine, oldfashioned, neoprimitive paintings of great historic events lately limned by Artist Oscar de Mejo (the Declaration of Independence scene, for example, presents Jefferson, Franklin and three...
None of this will matter much to those helplessly in thrall to the Hollywood mystique. Tryon's gloomy moralizing about crowned heads is window dressing; his loving reconstruction of a fading era is the work of a man still gaga over Stardust. Crowned Heads is not a very trenchant study of the ways of the Dream Factory, but it is certainly a symptom of them...
...draped over a strong story line, the effect is impressive. Lorna is a powerful vision of a woman's physical and mental collapse at an out-of-the-way Mexican resort. Nor does Tryon stint on nostalgia. Skillfully he conjures up the well-nigh irresistible grandeur that prewar Hollywood displayed to the world when "people were driven by their liveried chauffeurs in Duesenbergs . . . when polo matches were played at Will Rogers' ranch and Gable danced with Lombard at the Trocadero...