Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such an extreme move, it was a case of civil rights advocates turning into censors. Cruising's producer, Jerry Weintraub, meanwhile insisted that his film was not antigay, and he was critical of his critics. Said Weintraub: "They have asked me to make the picture in Baltimore or Hollywood, not here where they live. They want me to make it where other homosexuals live...
DIED. George Seaton, 68, prolific, perdurable screenwriter (The Song of Bernadette, 1944), producer (The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1955) and director (Airport, 1970); of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The original Lone Ranger on radio, at 22 Seaton went to Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl...
...Movie children were not always like real children," says Lament Johnson, who directed Mariel Hemingway in Lipstick and Diane Lane in Cattle Annie and Little Britches, a western film scheduled for release next spring. "Until about a decade ago, girls were dainty untouchables, unless they were little mutts. Hollywood had a Latin view of them, the whore or the madonna." If a script called for a very young girl to play a suggestive role, directors looked around for slightly built older actresses. When the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita appeared in 1962, it was considered scandalous that...
...grace. But to one degree or another, most kids-even yours-are actors anyway. Before a camera, most could be great if they did not learn, for whatever reasons of self-defense, to be cute and lovable. They turn into the celluloid brats who curdled their way through most Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s. Small wonder it always seemed so meet and funny when the toe of W.C. Fields' brogue met the back of Baby LeRoy's diaper...
...bought 44 years ago. A Belgian couple looks after it, and when Burns is not working, his day is as well planned as one of his comic routines. He is up at 7:30 a.m. and does 20 minutes of exercises. At 10 he drives to his office in Hollywood and sits down with his four writers to work on new material. By 12:30 he is having lunch at the Hillcrest Country Club where he sits with other show business gentry. Groucho Marx and Al Jolson used to be regulars. Says Burns: "There was a time when not much...