Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subpoena, and the party itself took place in an abandoned Los Angeles jail. Guests included Performers Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset, who were frisked, photographed and fingerprinted at the door. The mock lockup was all in honor of Author Truman Capote, who is currently in Hollywood portraying a criminologist who becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They had me lying on the floor with...
Died. Arthur Treacher, 81, English-born actor and archetype of the snooty butler; of heart disease; in Manhasset, N.Y. Treacher's first stage roles ranged from chorus boy to tragedian, but by the mid-'30s Hollywood had irrevocably type-cast him. While playing a conventionally polite butler in 1933, Treacher caught a director's attention with his acidly arch remarks. The character was hastily changed, and from then on, in dozens of movies, stage roles, and TV shows, Treacher perfected the persona of a cranky, bored, snobbishly insubordinate manservant...
...himself and his will to endure. With gracious apologies, Sir Laurence, 68, does not rise from the sofa on which he reclines, but he still speaks in that unique, resonant voice that every other actor fears to imitate. Last week TIME Theater Critic T.E. Kalem interviewed Olivier in Hollywood, where he is playing a fascist killer in a thriller called Marathon...
...PATRIOTIC IMPULSES. I am a childlike patriot, am to this day. When the war broke out, my late wife [Vivien Leigh] and I were out here in Hollywood and we had had a series of successes. When the studio heard we were leaving, they offered, first off, to buy us a house and donate a Spitfire to England. Another studio heard about that and offered both a house and a bomber. I suppose I could have held out for a house, a Spitfire and a bomber. But we both felt that we had to go back home and we left...
...counsel. As The Verdict and her earlier memoir The Gift Horse show, she has pursued life and love with fierce energy all of her 50 years. She is one of Germany's best-known actresses, a performer in 54 films, including Silk Stockings and Decision Before Dawn in Hollywood...