Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-sought celebrity. She had come a long way from Marshall, N.C., where her mother still lives in a rickety trailer. No longer was she merely the Southern girl who had lost the Miss Asheville contest, then got her nose bobbed and failed to make an acting career in Hollywood. Last week the whir of TV cameras and the pop of flashbulbs echoed in her tacky apartment in Arlington, Va. She was not the second Marilyn Monroe that she had yearned to become, but at least she was guided and comforted by her agent, her psychiatrist, her lawyer...
...Sight. Tiring of her sexual service for Hays, she left for Hollywood in the spring of 1975. "I'd been giving Academy Award performances once a week," she told the Washington Post. When she returned from the West Coast last July after failing to land even a cocktail waitress job, Hays asked South Carolina Democrat Mendel J. Davis to put her on his staff. As a member of Hays' House Administration Committee, Davis, 33, was eager to oblige the chairman. After a month or so Liz asked to rejoin Hays. He placed her on the committee payroll...
...programs or refreshment, out in the lobby. The movie takes it for granted that everyone in the audience will grow misty-eyed over these snatches of glory past. What is more saddening, however, is that the musical form has stayed stubbornly stuck; its evolution ended, apparently, in mid-1950s Hollywood...
Until the Hollywood musical finds another champion, it will be good-willed into a stupor by tributes like this one. There were wonderful moments, many on view here: Kelly spinning on roller skates in It's Always Fair Weather...
Loving Memory. Unlike Hollywood, where, as the adage has it, "You're only as good as your last picture," Broadway has a long and loving memory. Perhaps because stage failures are not embalmed on film, backers and producers and actors and directors tend to forget unpleasant history. This time they forgot that Lerner's last two tries for the theater, a stage version of Gigi and Lolita, My Love, were flops and that two previous shows, Coco and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, were coolly received by the critics. In fact, Lerner's last...