Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Matthews, then a high school senior, while commandeering his 1969 Ford Econoline van. Put on the stand by Browning, Matthews recalled how the four had spent a surrealistic evening-cruising around for a while, going to see a drive-in double feature and then spending the night in the Hollywood hills. Matthews told how Patty had been so concerned about his welfare that she would frequently "pat me on the head and ask if I was all right." He told how expertly she handled her gun and how she had told him that she had willingly taken part...
...Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance, Loretta Young wore a padded body suit to help make her long neck look shorter. Elizabeth Taylor required no padding for Cleopatra, but her 60 changes of costume...
...mouse structure, never realized, called for the building of a huge facade-face of a mouse on the hills over Hollywood. The tongue (originally the handle of the movie camera) was to protrude out into space. From this elevation the movie camera-mask-mouse-skull would watch over Hollywood, its creation and its creator. Oldenburg commented: "Maybe people would commit suicide off the tongue, like the Golden Gate bridge...
...Great Prince. Currently, Giannini can also be cast down about work just completed (the starring role in the new Luchino Visconti film) and jobs offered, including several from Hollywood that tempt him because "my nature is to court glory or invite disaster...
...director is similarly beguiled by opportunities to work in America. Her credo that "I make films for the masses"-if not the socialist politics from which it springs-would go down just fine in Hollywood. Wertmuller is also wary, however, and knows that "this is a very, very dangerous time for me. Dealing with Hollywood studios is like being courted by a great prince. At first they're lovely, murmuring 'Oh, my sweet girl, how I adore you and want you.' I tell them, 'Ba fungoo!' They don't stop. They slip to their...