Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fetus and a miscarriage. In real life, she is the daughter of a Methodist minister and is married to Record Producer Dan Fortunato. She commutes into Manhattan from staid suburban Westchester County. "I'd love to play a real evangelist like Aimee Semple McPherson," says Fulton of her Hollywood aspirations. In case that script doesn't work out, however, Fulton has continued fulfilling her soap-opera duties each day before heading for the Plaza...
Thurberesque Comedy. In true Hollywood fashion, Carney's award is belated justice. In 1965 it was Carney who made immortal the finicky Felix in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple on Broadway only to be elbowed out of the movie by more bankable Jack Lemmon. If anyone doubted the injustice, two nights after the Oscars, ABC aired a Jules Feiffer sketch of Carney giving a performance of Thurberesque comedy as a harried househusband, a timid man all but overcome by familial concupiscence...
...lawyer) George V. Higgins, building on his experience with the acute hearing of his inventive mind's car, wrote out The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a quick-paced, quick-waited, brutal and brutish novel about small-time men in the Boston underworld Critics praised it, the public bought it. Hollywood filmed it, and Higgins came close to repeating his success with two new crime novels in the next two years. All the while he denied being a crime novelist. "I don't write books about crime," he told me a few days after he finished writing this new novel...
...cannot be sure that Hollywood is to blame...
...Clark Kent and Lois Lane will be in bed together unless the director decrees otherwise," promises Godfather Author Mario Puzo, who last week began his newest project, a movie script of Superman. Puzo, whose scripts for Godfather I and Earthquake are expected to gross $225 million for their Hollywood studios, says Superman will bring him a heroic paycheck well into six figures. And how will the leotarded champion of truth, justice and the American way find his own way into the boudoir? "It is a crucial question, but I have figured it out," says Puzo mysteriously...