Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew static he opened a 20-year feud with Fred Allen. Benny put a clothespin on his nose and mimicked Allen's nasal delivery. When Waukegan planted a tree in Benny's honor, Allen asked, "How do you expect it to live when the sap is in Hollywood?" Once when Benny was on the losing end of an exchange, he told Al len, "You wouldn't dare say that if my writers were here...
CHINATOWN. The year's most skilled and elegant Hollywood entertainment. A Los Angeles private eye (sardonically played by Jack Nicholson) stumbles into a slough of personal and political corruption. The movie is a lambent caution about the dread but immutable uses of wealth and power...
Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...
...movie version of President's Men has also been a headache. They came close to rejecting Actor Robert Redford's offer to buy movie rights to the book for fear the Hollywood version would be, well, too Hollywood. They were right. The first draft of Writer William Goldman's script was excellent in parts, but generally superficial. "It read like a Henny Youngman joke-book of one-liners," Bernstein complained to a friend. "Harry Rosenfeld [Post metropolitan editor] came out looking like Phil Silvers, and Ben Bradlee became Walter Pidgeon. It was just too shallow." So Bernstein...
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (who have collaborated on Some Like It Hot and The Apartment) give a friendly nod to Hecht's ghost by having Hildy speak of the time "Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood." But neither Hecht nor MacArthur could be expected to countenance what has been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple...