Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agencies that help find coed roommates make it clear to applicants that rent and chores are divided, and partners have separate bedrooms. "With the woman paying half the rent, sex privileges are not included," says Peggy Beltran of Housemates, Unlimited, in Hollywood. Beltran advises that both parties state house rules plainly before they move in together. Still, coed living can undermine the partners' social lives. "If a guy and a girl are living together, even if there is nothing sexual between them, it's not so unusual for the guy to be watching TV in the living room...
...always will be an opera composer." When Erich Wolfgang Korngold said that in 1942, the folks in Hollywood nodded sympathetically and went on enjoying his film music. After all, Korngold was a celebrated composer of movie scores who had won Academy Awards for Anthony Adverse (1936) and The Adventures of Robin Hood...
Actually, by the time the Vienna-bred Korngold landed in Hollywood in 1934, he had behind him an astounding career as a musical Wunderkind in Europe. When he was a teenager, his works were performed by Pianist Artur Schnabel and Conductor Bruno Walter. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his third opera, Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), was staged at New York's Metropolitan Opera. In the leading role of Marietta was Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her Met debut. The American public took to Jeritza but not to Korngold, and after a few years it forgot...
...movies are sitting tighter these days than they have for some time. Hollywood went through scare periods when it was not clear what could be sold to the public, if anything. Old tyrants retired, sank and died; every year some old lion still in power was being proclaimed the last tycoon. Television killed the first set of old men, angry stockholders and ravenous conglomerates killed the second. Louis B. Mayer, the feared stable master of the great M-G-M dynasty, went under in 1951; Darryl F. Zanuck, truncheoning all comers, held out twenty years longer, finally going under with...
...wizards are looking for mass-sellable illusions, but even that is turning around. When Midnight Cowboy was chosen Best Picture in 1969, it represented the accession of the big boys to the idea that "Art" and business could be mated without killing the baby. That is the new Hollywood, An old-timer confided to me one afternoon in L.A. that the only reason the San Fernando Valley was built was for use as a backdrop in an M-C-M musical. It was recently smashed to dust for Earthquake. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Oz orders...