Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for Will Rogers, comedy seems to follow the same trope that holds for religion--it invariably moves from east to west. New York comics hit the big time and move west to Hollywood, British humor sweeps westward across the Atlantic to the East Coast. Since the Second World War this ageless migration has been performed by Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and most recently, Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...billionaire," Stephenson says. "People have to have qualities that have captured the imagination of millions, like Jackie O. or Liz Taylor. We especially like out-of-character shots or incidents." The New York staff is aided by correspondents and photographers monitoring celebrity watering holes in London, Paris, Rome, Hollywood and Washington...
Notebook Research. DeNiro is not a Hollywood but a New York actor, a term loosely used to describe a certain style and attitude, with implications of seriousness, stage-oriented technique and lengthy, underpaid apprenticeship. DeNiro has been plugging away at his profession for 14 years, through workshop productions, off-off-Broadway, dinner theaters, touring companies and a number of unsung independent films. Friends describe DeNiro as demonic, obsessive, perfectionist. He researches a role like a counter-intelligence agent cramming for a new identity. In his tiny, crabbed script, he fills one small notebook after another with research. DeNiro says...
...thus abolishing the committee. The Internal Security Committee was the direct descendant of the old House Un-American Activities Committee which was the leading force of red-baiting and repression during the intense Cold War period in the late 1940s and early '50s. It included among its victims the "Hollywood Ten," Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson, and numerous others of greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress...
...make a film than they ever dreamed of any they make films that are, indeed, different from their earlier, low-budget works, but films of undoubted high quality. In America, the big money goes only to those directors who sell out to the formulas imposed by their audience and Hollywood manages to ruin men of talent...