Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Balanchine-Kirstein company, the American Ballet, went broke while on tour in Scranton, Pa., in 1935. Thanks partly to some fast lobbying by Kirstein, the troupe was taken on as the ballet wing of the Metropolitan Opera. Three years later the company dissolved as Balanchine went off to Hollywood to choreograph such films as The Goldwyn Follies and On Your Toes, and Kirstein enlisted in the U.S. Army...
...Eyes. Less than a month later, Falk, then 26, landed a role in an off-Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh, and for the next eight years he worked steadily, mostly as a heavy, in TV and films. At one point Columbia Pictures summoned him to Hollywood for a screen test but did not sign him. "For the same price," said Columbia's boss Harry Cohn, "I can get an actor with two eyes...
...which two-eyed actor Cohn finally hired, but in the next two years one-eyed Falk won two Oscar nominations (for his portrayals of the vicious killer Abe Reles in Murder, Inc. and the Brooklyn hood in Pocketful of Miracles). His career then settled into a series of forgettable Hollywood films (The Great Race, Castle Keep, Luv) and a sprinkling of Italian epics. A TV series in 1965, The Trials of O'Brien (in which he played a slobbish lawyer similar to Columbo), folded after one season...
...Hollywood Dentist Gordon Bennett, ex-chairman of the California Dental Association's ethics committee, who will soon join Frankel and Winograde as a partner, feels that there is a growing trend toward making dentistry a less painful experience. "The whole atmosphere of white jackets, antiseptic smells and waiting rooms," he says...
...whole movie industry has changed dramatically since Aubrey joined it eight years ago. Several of the six remaining major Hollywood companies have become mere subsidiaries of profit-directed conglomerates like Gulf & Western Industries (Paramount) and Transamerica Corp. (United Artists). High-cost extravaganzas have become as rare as singing cowboys and have been replaced by Aubrey's genre: lowbudget, high-profit black films (Cleopatra Jones) and Kung Fu films (Fists of Fury). What future role Jim Aubrey may play in the new Hollywood that he helped shape is a question that will have to wait for his announcement of what...