Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the course of his reporting for this week's cover story on TV soap operas, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos joined two of the actors on NBC's Days of Our Lives, Susan Seaforth Hayes and her husband Bill, for lunch at a Hollywood restaurant. "A well-known movie star was seated across from us," Janos recalls. "Within 15 minutes of our arrival, the Hayes' were besieged by autograph seekers. I watched the movie actor's face. At first he was simply puzzled, then he was piqued. Finally he became incensed. No one had paid...
Since the '30s, the quality of horror has steadily deteriorated. Hollywood milked the market by offering two monstrosities for the price of one (Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man) and finally turned the grand old ghouls into shambling straight men for the giggle brigade (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein). In the '50s, and '60s, horror was further debased by Britain's Hammer Productions, which starred Christopher Lee in blood-splotched shockers. Their strongest claim to originality was the introduction of the crimson contact lens...
Directors wearing puttees and waving bullhorns decorate Hollywood back-lots. The air reeks of bathtub gin. Model Ts cause traffic jams. At first it was simple evocations of the '20s (The Great Gatsby) and '30s (Chinatown). Now the trend is narcissistic...
...about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called Gus is barking his way across the country on a promotion campaign for Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood...
...studio heads, many of whom are ex-agents. They are light-years away from the megalomaniac visionaries of yesteryear like Samuel Goldwyn and Irving Thalberg. The current studio bosses' philosophy seems to be: if it sold 30 years ago, it must sell now. Even the greatest of Hollywood's camp creations is not to be spared. For the past two months, ads have been splashed throughout the press proclaiming that King Kong will love and die again-not once but twice. In early January both Universal and Paramount will start production on $12 million remakes...