Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satin hot pants and six-inch platforms and spent a month of her summer vacation walking a beat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She was not picked up. "I couldn't believe how she looked in her wardrobe," says her mother, Brandy Foster, a former Hollywood pressagent. "Suddenly she had legs. I don't think I'd ever seen her with her hair curled. I was very happy when she returned to her grubby little self...
...Jodie, returning to herself meant to the gray-skirted school uniform of the rigorous Lycée Français, where she gets straight A's. She and her mother, who divorced Jodie's father when Jodie was nine months old, share a modest house overlooking the Hollywood Bowl. Since her debut on the television series Mayberry R.F.D., Jodie brightened the short-lived Paper Moon on TV and has made a total of ten movies, including the yet to be released Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, portraying a teeny-bopper killer; Bugsey Malone, an all-child...
Jodie is neither a button-nosed naïf like the young Hayley Mills, nor hard-edged precocious, like Tatum O'Neal ("I think she is very good, but we are different characters"). She does not date, or attend Hollywood functions. She is disarmingly unconcerned about money. Aside from the $1,600 in a savings account from her dollar-a-week allowance, "a few bets" and "liars' poker with the movie crews," she has no idea how much her manager-mother has stashed away. "After all," says Jodie, "I'm just...
Died. Sal Mineo, 37, babyfaced, onetime teen-age idol who earned the nickname "The Switchblade Kid" for his stage and cinema characterizations of young toughs on the rocky road to manhood; after being stabbed; in an alleyway outside his West Hollywood apartment, where he died gasping, unable to identify his assailant. The son of a Bronx coffin maker, Mineo started his career on Broadway at age eleven in The Rose Tattoo. In 1956 he won an Oscar nomination for Rebel Without a Cause, and an Emmy nomination for Dino. A second Oscar nomination came for his 1960 performance...
...over 40 years appeared in more than 80 films; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. Born Leo Jacoby in New York City, in 1935 Cobb joined Manhattan's Group Theater where he appeared in Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy. Cobb was acting in Hollywood films when Director Elia Kazan sent him a copy of a new Arthur Miller play, Death of a Salesman, and an offer of the starring role. He accepted and in 1949 gave a landmark performance. After a decade of moviemaking and four years as Judge Garth in TV's The Virginian...