Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his lack of experience in foreign affairs, Reagan feels capable of bringing similar toughness into effective dealings with the Soviet Union. He concedes that "it may sound rather ridiculous as a comparison," but claims that his experience as negotiator for the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood's earlier days ("I sat opposite some rather opinionated figures there, the old robber barons who created the picture business") prepares him for bargaining with world leaders...
PSYCHO-HISTORY, a field that has gained a reputation for raking great men over the coals, has hardly been kind to T.E. Lawrence. From several "psycho-biographies" and a Hollywood extravaganza, Lawrence emerges as the hidden sexual Frankenstein's monster of the modern age--a libidinal beast repressed by Victorian morality, then let loose and finally destroyed by post-World War I decadence. These accounts have reveled in the sordid side of the Lawrence myth, and there are certainly enough seedy details to make any Freudian's mouth water...
Really Big. Seniors Nick Lemann and Peter Kaplan will read their one-act play, a comedy about the rise and cooptation of two 1930s Hollywood screenwriters, in the Leverett Old Library Theater, Sunday night at 8. It's free, and lasts about 45 minutes. That's it for Harvard shows, but it you're feeling adventurous and want to go beyond the confines of the campus...
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who is pushing for a city ordinance to bar youngsters under 18 from seeing violent movies, has drawn the fire of a premier gunslinger. Actor John Wayne, who has been drilling Hollywood bad guys for nearly 50 years, showed up in Chicago last week and defended his brand of movie gunplay. "I've shot as many people on-screen as anybody, but I haven't shot them - like they do today - with snot running out of my nose, sweating and with my pants torn open," said Big John in an interview with Chicago Tribune...
...movie openings go, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood made its bow with a wow. Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating...