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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music is not repressive in itself, just as other elements of popular culture, such as sports. Hollywood movies and TV situation comedies are not wholly repressive. These parts of American culture do not lie but symbolize the American worker's image of himself and his life situation: they are the evidence of a wish to run away from a present which does not recognize human needs for community, communication and creativity in work as legitimate. They are a protest--however submerged--against the life of the factory, the sales counter, and the office. Yet, the way the escape is made...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: A World Which Is Lost | 2/15/1975 | See Source »

Simon of the Deeort, with five early experimental films, including Bunuel and Dall's Un Chien Andsiou, Vigo's Tarie, and The Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra tonight at 8:30, and Friday through Tuesday at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Free to Be... You and he, starting Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

...Jackal. That night the anxiety turned out to be misplaced only in geography. Once again the murderer struck, but this time some six miles from Skid Row. The eighth victim, George Frias, 45, a catering-service secretary, was found in his modern first-floor Hollywood apartment on distant North Kingsley Drive, but he had worked near where the other victims were slain. His throat, too, was slit. A ninth man, also presumed to be a victim of the Slasher, was discovered two days later less than a mile away in another Hollywood apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Skid Row Slasher | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...simply a too-cute stage play turned into a too-cute (and what's worse for a mystery, too easy to figure out) movie: The Last of Sheila and Klute derive their chief interest not so much from their plots as from their settings, an ocean-liner studded with Hollywood stars and the underworld of an urban prostitute. The Long Goodbye tries to take on the whole tradition and do something with the self-consciousness that deliberate manipulation of the audience's expectations allows. The result, inexplicably, was boring...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: What The Butler Saw | 2/6/1975 | See Source »

Many of Jong's problems as a successful novelist will be the subject of her next book (tentatively titled How to Save Your Own Life). She spent last fall commuting to Hollywood to write the screenplay of Flying, and is now packing up for a long stay in Nevada or California, where she will work on her new novel and some poetry as well. Last week Jong and her husband began separation proceedings. As Flying clearly implies and as Jong confirms, "there were problems in our marriage from the start-those of a very verbal person married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Loves of Isadora | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

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