Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning out scores of movies, beginning with The Count of Monte Cristo in 1913, counting on high-paid stars, such as Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, to draw the crowds. Unlike other early movie magnates, Zukor avoided both Hollywood and histrionics, preferring to manage his burgeoning entertainment empire from New York, where he ran Paramount until he retired as chairman...
Expensive movies are sometimes made for strange reasons. Quality often has little to do with it. Great amounts of time and huge sums of money are lavished on what Hollywood likes to call "a project" just because a star is "available." The Blue Bird belongs to this category, although tangentially. It is probably the first movie in history made because a country was available...
When he left New York last January to establish himself in Hollywood, Neil Simon, Broadway's best comic playwright, seemed destined to dissolve into orange juice. The master of the sharp New York-Jewish one-liner, the one man who has been able to keep Broadway alive and kicky for 15 years -with Sunshine Boys, Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple and The Prisoner of Second Avenue-could not possibly survive in all that gossamer. He was too deep into Broadway to travel well. His brains would scramble in the sun. The sands of Malibu would jam his typewriter...
...into the theater. I wondered whether someone who's so New York in his humor would be funny to them." They laughed because portions of California Suite, a series of four one-acters, play skillfully on Simon's view of the absurdity of the New York v. Hollywood chauvinism. "This place," snorts a New York woman as she arrives in Beverly Hills, "smells like an overripe cantaloupe." At another point her ex-husband declares: "New York isn't Mecca just because it smells that...
...only thing I knew about England," admitted an Army truck driver from Massachusetts, "was that it was an island off the coast of France." More sophisticated compatriots knew it was filled with lords, butlers and detectives. Thanks to Hollywood, the English were considerably better informed about America. Everyone knew the U.S. was filled with cowboys, gangsters, slaves, millionaires and crooners...