Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andersonville Trial. A riveting dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the Confederate POW camp where 13,000 Union soldiers died during the Civil War. This production, which won an Emmy in 1970, was the first triumph of NET's accomplished Hollywood Television Theater. George C. Scott directs an excellent cast. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 3 hours...
...Tonight, the American Film Institute honors him with its second annual lifetime achievement award. If last year's AFI salute to John Ford is any indication, the ceremony (which CBS is broadcasting in condensed form five days after it occurred) will be boring and corny. Last year, legions of Hollywood celebrities tripped over themselves and President Nixon trying to outdo each other in paying soapy homage to Ford. Nixon will not be there this year; that alone will make the ceremony more bearable. But the ceremony itself does not matter; what counts is that AFI is honoring Cagney. The tribute...
...Paper Waste is the Law School Drama Society's "new musical comedy about a faded Hollywood studio's efforts to film the 'ultimate' expose of life at law school." Any resemblance to real studios living or dead is presumably coincidental. This weekend and next, 8 p.m. in the Pound Building at the Law School...
Some plant owners see their specialists on a regular basis, rather like the twice yearly dental checkup. In West Hollywood, Lynn and Joel Rapp, who run a plant store called Mother Earth, provide regular service to casual growers and chronically worried plantochondriacs alike, charging $35 and up for weekly sessions of care and feeding of a customer's indoor garden. The emphasis is on keeping a weather eye out for disease or what the Rapps call "preventive medicine." "Mealy bugs and scale are in the air like cold germs," they warn, "Every time you open your door or window...
Sunset Boulevard (1951), is one of the best films about Hollywood, and also one of Billy Wilder's best films. Set in an incredible Hollywood mansion, it captures the spirit of early-50s-just-outside-the-mainstream-of-Hollywood cynicism...