Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stage 5 at Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn Studios, the children's show Sigmund was being shot. Then an electrical fire started, and flames soon surrounded set, actors and crew. In next to no time, Fireman Steve McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses...
...were as tumultuous in New York film circles as they were in Washington, with no surcease of conflicts expected for the '70s. No sooner did beleaguered pundits establish film as art than they debated how it worked as art--whether it was visual, dramatic, or kinetic. The question "Are Hollywood directors really artists?," an extended corollary, took up a lot of print space from early on. Attacks later came from other quarters: what was film's relevance, its social responsibility? As that question now falls into cultural history's dustbin, sure to be reawakened at some future crisis, an entirely...
...Hollywood, Calif...
...lowest form of human endeavor. Sisterhood across class lines is a myth." Nor do many blue-collar women share the white-collar feminist's interest' in rising to high-level jobs. "We're laundry workers, X-ray technicians and the like," explains Elinor Glenn, of North Hollywood, Calif., a member of Local 434 of the Service Employees' International. "Our women are already out of the kitchen and it's not romantic. It's a matter of bucks." Says Union Member Anne Lipow: "Labor women are fighting to upgrade their jobs. To them this...
...Hollywood has long been notorious for just such vanity. But this movie ignores all appropriate acknowledgemeets. It lacks the grace to pay tribute to any vanished aspect of its past. It is too stuck up--failing to break out of the hollowness of its conception, echoing instead a hollowness not unlike that of West Egg. And its breed of pretentiousness is simply 30 years too late...