Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stewart's goals during a tour stop in Los Angeles last month was to throw a party for his fans in the Hollywood Palladium after his concert there. "Just with the kids that paid to see me. A party where for a change I don't have to put up a false front." His New York-based pressagent, Connie DeNave, nixed that. "Rod, darling," she said, "you're an artist. You need to be with your own kind-nice big, important people. Your kind of people." Rod darling turned away, half in frustration, half in anger...
Handsome as an aging matinee idol, Aubrey was hired by Kerkorian in 1969 after four lean years as an independent Hollywood producer and five fat ones as president of the CBS television network. He lost the latter job reportedly as a result of a swinging personal life and a chilling heartlessness that earned him the nickname "the smiling cobra...
...behind last year's pace, and Kerkorian was growing impatient. Chief reasons for the falloff: MGM's recent movies (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) have suffered box office anemia, and Grand Hotel cost overruns have been a continuing hemorrhage. Some Hollywood watchers report that, ironically, Kerkorian wanted to keep on cutting costs, but, in a major disagreement. Hatchet Man Aubrey saw that his empire was disappearing and thought that the chopping should stop. As Aubrey said last week: "The job I agreed to undertake has been accomplished...
John Ono Lennon, 33, and his wife Yoko Ono, 40, are busy at their respective careers on different sides of the continent. In Hollywood, John is grooving an album to be released this week, called Mind Games, which includes such Lennon novelties as the three-second Nutopian International Album; Bring on the Lucie; and Aisumasen (I'm Sorry). Back in Manhattan, Yoko opened a gig in an Upper East Side pub, delivering a program of her own non-songs, which she delivered off-key. As a feminist, didn't she feel exploited appearing in shiny black knee boots...
...That talented Austerlitz girl's little brother" was the way Fred Astaire, né Austerlitz, started out in vaudeville. But Fred, 74, has long since soft-shoed his big sister Adele, 75, into the shadows. Now Fred's career as he tapped his way from Omaha to Hollywood has been choreographed in Starring Fred Astaire (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Making his theatrical debut as Roxane, Fred, 6, was the foil for Sister Adele's Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride...