Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lately, and Graham is said to have been concerned that Kosner was making Newsweek too frivolous with his fondness for cover stories on pop culture and entertainment subjects. The week after Pope John Paul II made his historic return to Poland, for example, the magazine's cover featured Hollywood horror movies. Says Ron Travisano, president of Delia Femina, Travisano and Partners, a leading New York advertising agency: "Newsweek is not so 'hot' any more...
...buzzes past him, and he flicks at it with his tongue. He misses. "First thing to go on a frog, his tongue.'' says Kermit, remembering the great days when he could make the double play-fly to mosquito to gullet-with ease. But Dom DeLuise, the Hollywood agent who has rowed by in a boat, just a touch lost, is tired of wasting time. "I've got to catch a plane," he says, looking at his watch. Kermit thinks this over. "Not with that tongue," he says professionally...
...time putting it together--pouring on the blood, slime, and animal intestines--but the fun as all his. Actually, in its last scene the alien does exude a little personality, curled up in the corner of a space shuttle cleaning itself off, smacking its lips, coming to resemble a Hollywood producer, perhaps the producer of Alien, speculating on the grosses and gross-outs of his movie, and his new Beverly Hills mansion...
...star. Not a man to sell himself to the audience, Eastwood relies on a small as sortment of steely glances and sardonic smiles. Thanks to his ever craggier face, the gestures pay off better than usual, and so do the occasional throwaway laugh lines. At a time when Hollywood entertainments are more overblown than ever, Eastwood proves that less really can be more...
...film, They Live by Night, won critical plaudits for its stark depiction of teen-age alienation, loneliness and savage cruelty-themes he later developed in the psychological western Johnny Guitar and the '50s cult film starring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. Ray's fortunes faded in Hollywood in the 1960s, not to be revived by blockbuster fiascos he made abroad...