Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began on June 15, when Graham whisked into Atlanta International Airport with a towering entourage of smiling, suntanned, seersucker-jacketed look-alikes. As he moved down the glass-walled corridor, Graham strode slightly ahead of his companions--his silver hair glistening a little more in the sunlight, his Hollywood tan more golden, his blue eyes more piercing, his big white smile more dazzling than the others'. Bystanders fought the blinding glare to gaze after his amazing grace...
...entrance was perfect--and then I met him. He was more a figure than a man, a walking mannequin who had sold his soul to the devils of modern image-making. His reverence was wrapped in Hollywood Holiness, and the whole package was better suited to a television screen or a stadium platform than a room filled with real people...
...spring 1972, Ed and Nick received the first payment from the union. They formed a corporation, America on the Move, Inc., and hired a reputable public relations consultant, Thelma Gray, to handle the publicity campaign. Setting up offices at the Samuel Goldwyn studios in Hollywood, they launched the project at Teamster headquarters in Washington. Demonstrating its usual friendliness toward the union, the Nixon Administration sent top officials to attend the ceremonies...
America on the Move had been hijacked-by its own producers. It seems that no sooner had Ed and Nick set up shop in Hollywood than they formed a second corporation, Sabra Productions Inc., which began shooting a movie in Israel. To finance the film, they dipped heavily into money allocated for the Teamster campaign, an action that has caused the U.S. Department of Justice to start an investigation. Ed and Nick argue that $400,000 of their Teamster budget was "profit" to use as they pleased. But they spent much more than that. Explains McMahon: "We misused the money...
...America on the Move have not been paid. Although CBS received $182,000 for air time for the TV show and the actors were paid, the writers, producers and other participants have not been given a cent. Because of nonpayment of rent, the Samuel Goldwyn studios locked up the Hollywood offices, impounded the furniture and filed suit against America on the Move. Thelma Gray's firm, T. Gray & Associates, claims that the operation still owes it $59,000. Loudest to complain have been the parents of high school students who were supposed to win savings bonds in the essay...