Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone in the rather special world of professional beauties. Many make $100,000 a year or more from their looks. "You either have it or you don't," says Carrie Donovan of Harper's Bazaar. "A beauty must be able to project herself, be dramatic, an actress." Hollywood Starlet Deborah Raffin, 22, a lean blonde with almost cliché American looks, has projected herself with more effect on the covers of glossy magazines than in the movies. Picked at age 19 to play Liv Ullmann's daughter in 40 Carats, she also starred in the uproariously...
...this year she is studying at a London drama school bridging what she hopes is only a transitional hiatus in her career. "I'm too old to play little whores and teen-age rape victims," she says. The trouble is, Carrie knows that women's roles in Hollywood are still stereotyped and their range is sadly limited. "Women," she says, "no longer just get sown while men do all the sowing." Carrie's acidulous commentaries make social life difficult. "It's hard to get turned on by a man the same age. Boys always used...
Hecht opened the deliveries with a humorous poem that purported to be an alcohol-inspired vision of a Hollywood production of the Bicentennial, casting Groucho Mars as P.T. Barnum...
Gamy Sexuality. Black claims that there is "a lot of Marilyn Monroe in me," but she disdains the traditional glamorizing process of Hollywood-all the makeup and surgery that can camouflage every flaw. She has capitalized on her defects as well as her virtues. Her image is to look scruffy and a little disassembled. Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness. Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors...
...Milius may be good for even more if this movie is a fair indication. A screenwriter (The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean) whose only previous feature was the routine and derivative Dillinger (1973), Milius makes considerable-indeed, amazing- progress here. It has been a long time since Hollywood has produced an adventure as sumptuous as The Wind and the Lion or a fantasy as rich...