Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gatsby in Hollywood...
...cowboy on the lonely diplomatic trail, the foreign affairs adviser to Hollywood starlets, the dashing bachelor of Foggy Bottom-he is no more. Only recently revealed as the most-admired man in America, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 50, last week abandoned his exaggerated image as a swinger. He got married. Not, as he quipped a couple of months ago, to his most frequent dinner date in that hectic period, Joseph Sisco, his chief adviser on Middle East affairs, but to his longtime close friend, Nancy Maginnes...
...spirit who understands that his charges are unreachable through conventional pedagogy, and perhaps are already fatally damaged by it. He is willing to try everything from nature walks to wrestling matches to awaken them. Alternately putting himself and them on, cussing and intoning poetry, playing Beethoven records and old Hollywood pirate movies for them, he has an energy and exuberance that are infectious both to pupils and audience...
...movies are mostly made by old companies, in particular giant Universal Studios, the only company left in Hollywood with its own working back...
...wait in Houston, We 've Got a Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in a Love Story with wheelchair called The Affair. There were also obvious borrowings from Hollywood hits-among the recent ones: several mini-Poseidon adventures with oddly assorted casts trapped in runaway trains and stalled elevators and even an elegiac western whose gimmick was readily apparent from the title, Mrs. Sundance...