Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned by critics, they would be read by a vast and curious public. A compulsive worker, Susann concocted her stories from a standard, easy-to-read recipe of soft-core deviant human appetites and lusts, glamorous settings like Broadway and Hollywood, and characters often resembling easily recognizable public figures. Dolls, with sales of 17 million copies, became probably the most purchased novel in history...
WHAT I FOUND out over the next several years was that discussion courses here usually conform to one of several types. First there is the Hollywood-Squares-With-Pedant-Moderator type, typified by a graduate seminar I took in the Department of S*******. I came across this course when I was going through a Great Name stage, when I was a Boswell looking for his Johnson, a neophyte looking to sit at the feet of some guru. I found my big name, but the course became more of a quiz show than an investigation of the sociological foundation of literature...
...handful of important photographers in America--or anywhere." Her reaction to his praise is typical for her: "Of course, I had been photographing for twenty-five years." In 1931, Martha Graham called Imogen "the only photographer before whom I can create." And Vanity fair sent her to Hollywood to photograph Spencer Tracy, Wallace Beery and James Cagney as part of an article on ugly...
HARRY AND TONTO is about as exciting as a belt of Geritol but it may be a sign that Hollywood has found a new special-interest group to exploit. The elderly are often the last minority that Americans get around to noticing, and until recently movie executives were no exception. But it seems the strange success of Harold and Maude, a spotty movie about a teenage boy in love with a septuagenarian woman, has revealed the market's potential...
...wanders across America, much the same things happen to Harry as happen to most of Hollywood's other recent Odysseuses. He gets laid, hustled, busted, and misses his bus. His daughter in Chicago coolly realizes that the closest they can come to understanding one another is argument; his son in California clutches him as his false glamor dissolves beneath him. Harry moves on, encountering young runaway girls, health food swindlers, and an Indian who cures his arthritis in return for an electric blender. He buys Tonto a Scotch in a Las Vegas casino and spends the night in jail...