Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes in groups, more often alone, they swagger through Bel Air, Brentwood, Malibu and other smart-set residential areas around Los Angeles, ignoring keep-out signs, crashing uninvited into swimming pools and filling the night air with unholy howling. Hollywood partygoers gone astray? Marauding hippies from Haight-Ashbury? No, these intruders in the hills and canyons around tinsel town are, of all things, a new breed of citified coyotes...
Worried pet owners aside, many Angelenos are beginning to agree. Taking up the coyotes' cause, Hollywood Conservationist Lila Brooks almost single-handed led a successful campaign to get the city to begin construction of as many as a dozen watering holes for coyotes and other wild animals around town. "The coyote is not in our backyard," she says. "We are in his backyard." Some Angelenos are raising coyote pups as pets; one woman sets out 5 lbs. of chicken backs every day to feed the animals. Says June Gador, a writer in coyote-infested Hollywood Hills: "We figure...
...OLDEST PROFESION in the wold has finally began so painted, padded and well-packaged by Hollywood that it's been sold into respectability. Prostitution is still illegal, sure, but like other professions that used to be morally reprehensible, it begins to lose its shame when it becomes big business. Men who were "in trade" used to be socially blighted. Acting, as long as actors were poor, was considered a dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world...
...fact this abomination is leaving today, from the Beacon Hill, where it has been preaching the worst kind of fascist nonsense for the past couple of months. The responsibility belongs to USC Film School hot-shot John Millus, who, along with Robert Towns (shampoo, The Last Detail) is Hollywood's favorite litte scriptwriter This film he directs as well, but his skills in the department may be quickly dismissed as amateurish--a hopeless waste of a very large budget, lots of locations and extras, etc. But his scriptwriter is something to be reckoned with--he has made quite...
...just not my thing." His personal life, which includes Rock Singer Linda Ronstadt, is not readily revealed, although friends testify that Brooks never entirely abandons comedy in private. Singer Harry Nilsson recalls sleeping off a drunk one night on the floor at Brooks' small house in the Hollywood hills. His host appeared before him dressed in a clown suit and whispered his name like a beckoning ghost. All in the Family's Rob Reiner remembers going for a drive with his boyhood pal and getting lost. Brooks went into a field and asked directions back to Los Angeles...