Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hotfooted newspaper comedy nearly half a century ago, they started a kind of show-business dynasty. Besides stage revivals, there was a television series in 1949, and now a third movie version of The Front Page is out. The first film was produced in 1930, almost as soon as Hollywood found its tongue. It starred Pat O'Brien as Hildy Johnson, dervish of the deadline and past master of the fictitious fact, and Adolphe Menjou as his congenially mean-spirited editor, Walter Burns. Ten years later Howard Hawks changed the title to His Girl Friday, casting Gary Grant...
After all," he reasoned, "Hollywood is as American as the American Revolution, so a blue-green sharkskin suit from the '30s should do the trick...
...interview with New York Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud, may not attract many serious suitors, but her powerfully honest portrayal of the stripper-turned-junkie wife of Lenny Bruce in the film Lenny may just earn her an Academy Award nomination. Perrine has already gone into training to become Hollywood's newest sex symbol. "I've experimented with almost every drug known to man," she told Klemesrud. "But now I don't even smoke grass. It gives me the munchies, and I can't afford...
THOMAS HART BENTON by Matthew Baigell. 278 pages. Abrams. $40. In a painting career that has already spanned more than 50 years, Thomas Hart Benton acts as a kind of troubadour of American painting. His work, well represented in this book, ranges over all regions and periods, from Hollywood sets to Southeastern tobacco farms, from battles between Indians and settlers to World War II. Throughout, in a distinctive style, dynamic, sinuous but often lumpishly awkward, he affectionately illustrates the rhythm, energy and drama of American life...
...along the Pacific Coast into a successful career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work. And when he applied brush and watercolors to certain subjects-a bucking bronco, a string of Indian ponies-Borein had a rare gift for bringing them back alive...