Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irving Wallace has always been trendy. But in his latest package he has modestly chosen to limit himself to kidnaping and rape, perhaps because the good liberal in him balks at going further. The object of Wallace's kidnaping is a Hollywood sex symbol named Sharon Fields, she of the "half-parted moist lips" and "famous bosom." Her captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate...
...cautiously balanced set of Oscars that were handed out last week. The Sting sweep (best picture, best director, best original screenplay, four minor prizes) could have surprised only those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth...
...fetishist for facts about this mysterious man? Although I do not consider my own hero-worship of dead authors excessive, I did find it interesting that Faulkner patronized Aunt Rose Arnold's New Orleans whore-house at Chatres and Jackson Square. Similarly, Blotner's account of Faulkner's Hollywood years is as interesting as Time's "people" section...
...Hollywood mansion? A millionaire's resort? Actually, these solaces and services are available on an airplane so sumptuously fitted that it makes Hugh Hefner's vaunted black Bunny-a DC-9 -look like steerage. The world's most luxurious aircraft is Starship I, a maroon and gold Boeing 720 that rents for $2,500 per hour or $5 per mile (whichever comes higher) and is patronized exclusively by musical groups, who are about the only people these days who can afford such prices. They apparently like what they get: Starship is booked solid for the rest...
Incredible Money. This sybaritic service is the idea of Ward Sylvester, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate and Hollywood promoter. "A lot of young musicians are making incredible money," he explains. "But nobody is targeting them as a market." Sylvester also observes that entertainers do not like commercial airlines and often vice versa. Says he: "Being on a long flight is like a personal appearance for a performer because he spends the whole time signing cocktail napkins." Also, fellow passengers and airline personnel tend to look askance at long-haired young musicians in first class-even if they happen...