Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...numerous intermission-time re-encounters revealed. And indeed some of the members of this group were almost as entertaining as the performance, looking like personalities from a "Who's Who in Wonderland" directory. Glitter in the jammed lobby reached from wall to wall, a la East Village via Hollywood chic...
...courage of man." Stricken with cancer in 1970, Ryan waged his own last battle against recurrent pain to complete A Bridge Too Far, a history of the disastrous 1944 airdrop at Arnhem, which was No. 2 on the bestseller lists when he died. ∎ Died. Rosemary Lane, 58, Hollywood's "Betty Coed" of the 1930s; of pulmonary obstruction and diabetes; in Hollywood. One of the "singing Lane sisters" who broke into movies with Bandleader Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Rosemary starred in the 1937 musical Varsity Show, appeared with Rudy Vallee in Gold Diggers in Paris, and Time...
Despite his halo of blond hair and seraphic smile, and those aphorisms he kept delivering in the movie The Little Prince, Steven Warner, 8, is a seasoned trouper. On a jaunt to Hollywood, Steven took along his bus-driver parents John and Rita Warner and his sister Mandy, 10, to enjoy his fame. In an appearance on Dinah!, he brought down the house when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having...
...Dreams, power and imagination," murmured High Priestess of Fashion Diana Vreeland. She was looking over galleries that glittered and winked with rhinestones, diamanté, sequins and paillettes. It was on the eve of her exhibition, Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design at the Metropolitan Museum, and the former Vogue editor in chief was putting last-minute touches on more than 100 refurbished but original costumes from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh...
...going on 40 years now, Dwight Macdonald has written to-or at-his fellow Americans rather in the style of an indignant letter to the Times. The things Your Correspondent has to put up with! From native gaucheries ("Our manners are either bad or nonexistent") to Hollywood movies ("Palm trees don't make Los Angeles an exotic city and options on Ulysses don't make Hollywood a sophisticated one"). Then there's Webster's New International Dictionary (third edition), the "One Hundred Great Books," and all translations of the Bible except the King James Version. Will...