Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Janis Joplin, the subject of this willfully empty-headed documentary, died of an overdose of heroin in 1970 in a Hollywood motel room, all alone. There is no sense whatsoever in this film of the loneliness and desolation that could have led to such an end; indeed, there is no mention at all of her death, not even the fact of it. Instead, we are presented with a lot of concert footage and some spliced-in interviews, mostly gath ered from old television spots. Joplin reveals as much of herself as most people do under the flighty scrutiny...
Indeed, in a speech in Hollywood, Fla., Ford backed off from his previous description of the oil-tariff boost as the linchpin of his program. Instead, he called the increase "an administrative action taken solely for the purpose of forcing the Congress to act." Just as pointedly, he softened his criticism of Congress, not delivering in the Florida speech his prepared remarks declaring that by failing to move swiftly Congress was pursuing a "course [that] could lead America to disaster...
During his press conference in Hollywood, Fla., last week, President Ford made the U.S. position clear. "Such discrimination," he said, "is totally contrary to the American tradition and repugnant to American principles." Ford asked the Justice, Commerce, State and Defense departments to investigate, suggesting that the U.S. may take some economic counteractions against those who discriminate...
Bertolt Brecht sought refuge in the U.S. in 1941 and went to Hollywood "to join the market where lies are bought...
...Welles on his own initiative by finally reviewing Citizen Kane on the movie page. Now his Hearstian rehabilitation moved onward and upward into the front news section. By decision of its top management, the Herald-Examiner recently ran on page two an unannounced two-column Loynds report headlined HOLLYWOOD TRIBUTE TO ORSON WELLES. Wrote Loynds: "Welles' greatest film contribution is Citizen Kane (1941), which stunned the film world with its remarkable cinematic control and invention and did for post-World War II cinema what D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation had done for cinema before...