Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dietrich, Hughes' former chief lieutenant, said he had seen a will, but that was back in the 1950s. Investigators began a massive dragnet search for a will, combing through Hughes' old map cases, flight bags, books and safe-deposit boxes. They looked in one box in a Hollywood Bank of America branch where Dietrich believed the will had been placed. By week's end no one had produced Hughes' last testament...
Meanwhile, Hollywood will also take a closer look at the departed billionaire. Last week Warner Bros, announced that it would make a movie about Hughes, starring Warren Beatty. The project has been secretly under development for about a year under-what could be a better epitaph?-the code name "Operation Phantom...
Since the Beatles aren't coming back ever again, other people are coming to Boston along with Bob Marley and the Wailers this weekend to take your mind off the final passing of the sixties, which happened sometime last week in Hollywood. David Bromberg will sing songs of the post-folksong era at the Berklee Performance Center at 7:30 and 10:30 pm on Saturday. The Tubes, who are like a recrudescence of all that is and ever was bad with the entire world, especially that of rock, will torture you and your mother if you bring your mother...
...much the same way he gained-and lost-Hollywood's RKO. Buying it in 1948, he soon became the only individual to own a major U.S. film studio. He would summon associates to midnight meetings in obscure hotels and sometimes hole up for weeks in a studio screening room, subsisting on cookies and milk while watching nonstop reruns of old flicks. The studio had few postwar hits; its executives revolted; and in disgust Hughes sold RKO in 1954 for a small profit to the General Tire and Rubber...
...stressed Rampling last week, recalling her 1974 movie role as the willing captive of an ex-Nazi. Actually, says Charlotte, she is a homebody whose heart belongs to her husband, Writer Bryan Southcombe, 38, and Son Barnaby, 3. From the looks of it, her present image is Hollywood wholesome in every respect. In Charlotte's latest TV movie-titled Sherlock Holmes in New York-she portrays sleuth's mysterious lady friend. Offscreen, Rampling is negotiating to adopt a young French orphan. "I'll want to spend more time with my children, especially as they need me more...