Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months after the movie's American premier. Costa's portrayal of the Tupamaros, Uruguay's urban guerilla group, is far from simple and far from idyllic. The movie, despite the charges of propaganda, is relatively hardnosed and intelligent compared to some of the documents that come out of Hollywood. Yves Montand, star of Z, takes on the new role of villain in this movie. The film was scripted by Franco Salinas, who also wrote the screen play for The Battle of Algiers. The film will be shown at the Science Center tonight and tomorrow at 7 and 9. Danny Schechter...
...eleven-year-old theater-restaurant devoted to the art and craft of legerdemain, is enjoying its most successful year. Says Resident Card Wizard Charles Miller, "Magic is surging; the rewards are better both financially and what you might call soul filling. Even the oldtimers are better." In North Hollywood, Magician Mark Wilson employs a full-time staff of 20 to devise and build special effects to astound audiences at conventions and trade shows...
...strength of such engaging fancies, Brooklyn-born Westlake, 41, a softspoken, owlish ectomorph who resembles most of his protagonists, has slipped into the front rank of popular crime writers. Especially in Hollywood, where his plots seem like readymade movie scenarios-so readymade, in fact, that with Cops and Robbers (1972) Westlake reversed the usual sequence and wrote the movie script first, then turned it into a novel...
...beat in Harlem for ten years. After he succeeded Clarence Kelley, now head of the FBI, McNamara caught a lot of flak-including an unsuccessful lawsuit charging that he lacked the required experience for his job. McNamara wants to apply computer analysis to crime prevention and to eradicate Hollywood's image of cops. "The norm of police work is not violence," he says. "Most of a policeman's time is spent helping people...
...delightful bit of oldfashioned comedy stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and a youngish Marilyn Monroe. It's being shown with Lifeboat, an Alfred Hitchcock suspense story that's not really up to Hitchcock's standard of excellence. Both movies are inordinately superior to the stuff that comes out of Hollywood nowadays. The double-bill goes...