Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawyers and professional investigators continued to press a nationwide search for an authentic will. The best clues so far: a key to a safe-deposit box found among Hughes' belongings in his old Romaine Street office in Hollywood and a 1938 registered letter to the First National Bank in Houston saying he was enclosing a will. Neither discovery has produced results. America's-perhaps the world's-foremost mystery man in life, Howard Hughes may have created his biggest mystery in death...
...dialogue, the script was delivered to the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI where it was checked for content and accuracy. From there the script went to headquarters in Washington, and agents from the bureau's Crime Records division edited the manuscript and even sent it back to Hollywood for rewrite if the FBI came out looking too violent or too soft...
Touch of Evil is Orson Welles's darkest, most disturbing film. Shot in Venice, California after years of exile from Hollywood studios, the film stars Welles as Hank Quinlan, an obese, autocratic cop who frames his victims to ensure that the guilty do not escape punishment. Quinlan represents Welles's moral vision at its most complex and contradictory: on the one hand, he is a repulsive figure--brutal, racist, eats candy bars the way most people smoke cigarettes--and employs illegal methods; but on the other, he cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican...
...system that belongs to entertainment, not news." Said a top CBS executive: "For 20 years we've struggled to have broadcast news treated on a par with print news. So when ABC pays someone that kind of money it makes us all look like Hollywood. I can just hear people saying, 'Isn't that typical of television...
Nagging Concern. To survive, Lockheed needs to sell off marginal assets, like the Hollywood-Burbank Airport, and find more customers for its Tri-Star jumbo jet. Over the next ten years the company will write off as losses $500 million in TriStar development costs, and it needs more sales to cushion the blow. Defense business is encouraging: Lockheed should this year match the $2 billion in Government contracts that it booked in 1975. Modifications of the C-5 A and C-141 transports could lead over the next few years to an additional $1.5 billion in military orders...