Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Sidney Buchman, 73, film producer and scenarist; following a heart attack; in Cannes, France. A top Hollywood screenwriter (The Sign of the Cross, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and a Columbia Pictures producer, Buchman was blacklisted after admitting to a congressional committee in 1951 that he had once been a Communist. He returned to film work in the 1960s serving as one of the writers on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton epic, Cleopatra, and later produced and wrote the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller, The Group...
...Cooley's brighter hopes hides out in a bathroom where a young lady sits screaming on the toilet. The movie does have two energetic performances by Glynn Turman and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, but they are just about overrun. One of the Cooley kids takes off for Hollywood to become a successful screenwriter and, we are informed in a Graffiti-like postscript, really makes it. He always figured he would, since he was so good at the hustle. If he is intended to represent the author of Cooley High, however, he is not quite as adept...
...have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking home a quarter-million a year, but he truly is a crusader." Parkhurst himself lives frugally with his wife (he owns no home) and seems unconcerned about his prodigal spending on expos...
...Hollywood...
Steamy Climate. With a double standard worthy of Hollywood's old Hays Office, the networks have apparently raised few objections to the season's seven new crime shows. They start at 9, which is shown by Nielsen to be almost as much of a children's viewing hour as family time. There is no indication either that the censors so much as raise an eyebrow at the lubricious exchanges that enliven family-time game shows like Hollywood Squares...