Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rent increase from $84 to $92 on Seidman's one-room apartment in sunny but seedy East Hollywood almost totally negated the latest increase in his $230-a-month Social Security check. Climbing costs have purged cottage cheese from his meatless diet (he suffers from a cardiovascular disorder and subsists on nuts, grains, fruits and beans). Despite Medicare, Seidman has had to dip into his savings to cover medical bills. He recently paid $700 for dental work and $140 for a pair of special orthopedic shoes, and fears that he will have to make another withdrawal to cover some...
...career may be prospering, but Actor Richard Chamberlain has still had some abrupt ups and downs lately. Last week he started out on the Hollywood set of Towering Inferno, a film in which he plummets 360 ft. off a building to a sudden conclusion. Death scene completed, Chamberlain then caught an overnight flight to Rome to play the Count of Monte Cristo, who rises from the dungeon after 14 years. Featured with Chamberlain in the January television special of Alexander Dumas's classic are Actors Trevor Howard as friendly friar and Tony Curtis as villain...
...difference in cost between the one-year shooting in the countryside of northern Italy and a year of shooting on a set in Hollywood," sums up Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci, "is the same as the difference between a Fiat 500 and a Cadillac." Bertolucci should know, having chauffeured himself from the low-budget The Spider's Stratagem through Last Tango in Paris to his current luxury-class movie, 1900, now being shot near Parma. The film, chronicling eight decades of Italian history, stars Burt Lancaster as a patriarchal land baron and Sterling Hayden as a peasant farmer. Expected...
...songstress; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Massey worked her way from seamstress to chorus girl to operatic leads in Vienna, where at 25 she was signed by an MGM talent scout. In 1939 she played a sultry Russian singer as Nelson Eddy's co-star in the Hollywood musical Balalaika, later cut up on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies (1943-44) and fooled with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy...
What is bigger than a bakery truck, has skin like sandpaper, three rows of pointy white teeth and beady black eyes? Of course, it is Hollywood's newest star: a 25-ft. mechanical great white shark named Bruce...