Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewer can miss such parallels as the one between this seemingly innocuous face and George the hairdresser's zipper: both are respectable facades covering much more menacing organs. But beyond such breathtakingly contemporary and decidedly hip statements, the movie does little more than pay homage to Hollywood's God, Tinsel, who beneficently provides Beatty, who wrote the script, with enough ribbons and bows to wrap up this relic from some moviemakers' junkyard and offer it as something new. The context is modern but the story is old, so that the viewer is left feeling like someone who goes...
...cooled us off so much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried about prestige--they're worried about their lives, their salaries, their rank in the Hollywood hierarchy. The winner of the Best Picture of the Year award is likely to double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best Supporting Actor jack...
...next to bugle-beaded Ann-Margret. Invitations called for "black tie or glitter funk," a dress code broad enough to bring put Pop Artist Andy Warhol ("I just wanted to see Ann-Margret"), Marion Javits, wife of Senator Jacob Javits, Actor Anthony Perkins and a sampling of transvestites, tuxedoed Hollywood agents and blue-jeaned rock freaks. The glitter blitz blared until 2 a.m., leaving Columbia Pictures with a bill of some $35,000 for food, flowers and guards. The whole spectacle was unsettling to Tommy Composer and Who Guitarist Pete Townshend, who stood by a turnstile surveying his new underground...
...quoted phrases and a sentence of summary would have conveyed the nature of most of them. Bernstein prints them, almost without excision. Bernstein, moreover, is the kind of writer who tries for breeziness by referring, for instance, to New York City as "Gotham," to England as "Albion" and to Hollywood as "the fabled Tinseltown." He sees nothing wrong, either, with writing "his scrupulously guarded virginity, hidden for so long on that same lofty pedestal where American Womanhood dwelled, was surrendered to a semiprofessional demimondaine, a Folies-Bergère dancer named Ninette, and was continued with another." (What, exactly...
...curious about California, at least southern California, go see Shampoo, it won't lie to you. I went to Hollywood for the first time about a year ago with tickets to the Academy Awards. The day before the big show, I picked up a friend at a swank L.A. beauty parlor and there was this tall blonde guy named Phillippe or something leaning over her cooing, "I am going to make you beautiful, so beautiful." He believed what he was saying, and later when I saw my friend at a party after the Awards, I could tell that she believed...