Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood...
Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...
...much a part of the serious movie-goer's mental baggage that the idea of a good film being produced by an awful director seems a contradiction in terms. And Allen has compounded the problem by acting like some Cahiers du Cinema reader's idea of a Big Bad Hollywood Producer. Allen told the august Arts and Leisure Section of the New York Times that he made The Towering Inferno for the money and nothing else and threatened us with 19 follow-ups, a string of Sons of Towering Inferno's for which he claims he has scripts...
...float the U.S.S. Nimitz. Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey's 1937 surefire crier about an old, disowned couple is something of a can't lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play the ancient, sweet and wise. This picture has two of the best--Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Moore especially, hesitant, stuttering and practically irresistible had already cleared a career as one of Broadway's great musical comedy stars...
...Deeds. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually invoked as a standard of corporate liberalism by which American television is unfavorably judged, is deeply involved in the struggle over The Memory of Justice. After a screening of Ophuls' original version of the film, one BBC official offered that classic Hollywood criticism: "My ass hurt...