Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual kind of rockers' bash. On Sept. 23, 1974, after the Scottish group Average White Band's show at the Troubadour, Entrepreneur Ken Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...
Died. George E. Marshall, 83, prolific Hollywood director; in Los Angeles. Hired as an extra at Universal Studios in 1912, Marshall became successively a bit player, prop boy, makeup man, film editor, cameraman, and director of hundreds of serials, farces and westerns. Among his credits: Tom Mix flicks of the '20s, You Can 't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and How the West...
...movies. Usually by this time of year, when the Oscar nominations come out, and the Groundhog and the Valentines come out, and the senior theses come out, good new movies do nothing of the kind. It's the post-Christmas blight. This year as much as any Hollywood saved up for December, gambling that in this foul foul year when people across the world are facing disaster like never before, American moviegoers would be bored enough to relish apocalyptic scenes of their own destruction. Anyway, Christmas was a boom. Last year at this time, around when Patty Hearst...
...Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen was in the Oval Office taking pictures, a serious avocation of hers, alongside David Hume Kennerly, Ford's cameraman, the President went dutifully through his routine as the shutters clicked. After the two had gone, Kennerly was summoned back to Ford's desk...
...Carole Lombard), and Powell turns debonair again as the butler who reforms the family. Made in 1938 by Gregory La Cava. This, along with limitation of Life are showing Friday night (Godfrey at 9 p.m., the other at 7:30 and 11 p.m.) as part of the excellent Hollywood Film Series that's been going on at BU's Sherman Auditorium. Saturday night at the same times are Kiss Before the Mirror and Showbeat...