Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience--she emerges with an integrity borne of quiet suffering rather than resistance and strength, but nonetheless Tyson's performance is very moving. For all its flaws, and maudlin and liberal as it sometimes is, Pittman may be the best film about blacks ever to come out of the Hollywood environment. At the Boston Public Library at 3:30 and 7 p.m. today, Free...
Next Monday, at its opening session, the colloquium will focus on the subject of leisure activity during the Depression. The featured film of the evening is Easy Living (1937), one of the most successful of the "goofy comedies" that Hollywood was able to sell to Depression audiences. It's hardly the kind of movie one would expect scholars to analyze. But by watching the film critically with certain questions in mind, one can come up with some interesting hypotheses about life...
Drag Queen. It was a good year for Hollywood, and one of the best that a powerful, confident America has ever known. But Myron soon learns that his "new" world of padded shoulders and Hudson Hornets is divided into the locals - those who are actually living and working on the film in 1948 - and the visitors - those like himself who were mysteriously dumped there. There are scores of visitors, including a Philadel phia cook named Whittaker Kaiser, who is a merciless lampoon of Norman Mailer at his most masculine pugnacious. Richard Nixon even puts in a brief appearance, wanting...
...with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even has a warning for Judy Garland: "Get off the pills. If you don't, you'll be dead in 21 years...
When many of the chosen films are guaranteed swift commercial release, the festival is accused of being a kind of swank showcase, the plaything of movie distributors. At other times-this year's festival is an example-there are no ambitious films from Hollywood, few major works from the Continental masters. So the festival is blamed for being stodgy, esoteric and elitist...