Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focused on the politicians in Washington. Ford has been weakened further by his bumbling Cabinet shake-up of two weeks ago, his fumbling performance on the hustings and the disarray in his campaign organization. The beneficiary is Reagan, who, despite his years in the public eye as a Hollywood actor and California Governor, is viewed as a fresh face in presidential politics because he cannot be identified with the problems in Washington. Professionals in both parties give him an outside chance of carrying off the nomination at the G.O.P.'s convention in Kansas City, Mo., in August...
...series of jobs, eventually becoming a sportscaster at radio station WHO in Des Moines. He was a superb announcer of major league baseball games. Guided by only the sketchy summaries from ballparks, Reagan would fashion a gripping and imaginative narrative for his listeners. But his goal was always Hollywood. In 1937, while accompanying the Chicago Cubs to spring training in California, he wangled a screen test at Warner Bros, and landed a $200-a-week contract. His good looks and fine physique also led University of Southern California art students to select him as a "20th Century Adonis...
...their bitter Senate race. It seems likely, however, that in Reagan's early years, his political opinions were less his own than a reflection of those held by the people around him: his father, who was a New Deal Democrat, and the liberal men and women of Hollywood...
Industrialist Howard Hughes "was just a big, awkward, overgrown country boy" in the late 1920s. Charlie Chaplin was stubborn, arbitrary, and once bet $100 that "talkies" would never last in Hollywood. Both were part of the galaxy that surrounded Actress Marion Davies during her 32-year reign as mistress to Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Davies' recollections, which were tape-recorded in 1951 but locked up until her death a decade later at 64, were only recently rediscovered and published as a memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus...
...that mess by the same man: Presidential Counsel John Dean. For another, Mo makes it perfectly clear that she was not born yesterday. At 25, the ex-stewardess and daughter of a onetime Ziegfeld chorine had been married twice and was a frequent nightclub companion of Hollywood swingers. As she tells it, when one engagement soured, Mo cannily retained a lawyer and had the ring appraised: "It was an $18,000 ring, insured for $25,000, that I sold for $12,000, of which $4,000 went to the attorney...