Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape...
...only been in San Francisco about three or four weeks but I was tired of looking for a decent job, tired of living with my relatives, and tired of the beautiful people and the beautiful scenery; it all seemed like a misplaced setting for a big Hollywood production called "California Dream...
...recent success of The Poseidon Adventure, a star-laden epic of escape from an ocean liner turned upside down by a capricious tidal wave. Poseidon has grossed $141 million so far, bringing its studio, 20th Century-Fox, $72 million in profit. Such success does not go unimitated in Hollywood, and the studios have now flung themselves into a lemming-like race for the quintessential cataclysm...
Died. Donald Crisp, 93, Hollywood character actor for more than half a century; in Van Nuys, Calif. Crisp made his movie debut in 1906 doing muta-scopes (still pictures flipped before the viewer's eye). Second in command to Director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation (1915), Crisp directed the film's battle scenes and played the part of General Grant. In 1941 he earned an Oscar for portraying Mr. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley, his 135th film, then went on to make some 300 more movies. He appeared as Elizabeth Taylor...
...presentations in the most competitive categories. Logical perhaps, but disappointing for the invisible winners. Informed by the academy that he was to be given a special Emmy for outstanding program and individual achievement, a delighted Dick Cavett wrote an acceptance speech and, since he could not be at the Hollywood ceremonies, asked Carol Burnett to deliver it. Then he sat back to watch the proceedings on television, only to have it slowly dawn on him that his Emmy was never going to come up. Firing off a telegram to the academy, Cavett turned down his award, saying, "Since you couldn...