Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood...
...budget for all eight films, including Three Sisters, which was bought from Olivier as a finished film, was $6.6 million, less than the cost of many a single Hollywood extravaganza. The films -shot mainly in London and New York on tight, four-week schedules-were in effect subsidized by the artists. Directors were paid from $15,000 to $30,000 each, plus percentages from the future grosses of their productions. Hepburn and Marvin, who normally command six-figure salaries, worked for a token $25,-000 plus percentages; others worked for even less, lured by high-caliber colleagues, juicy roles...
...Bertha ("G.B.") Stern, 83, prolific, witty British novelist who wrote an average of one novel a year between 1920 and 1964; in Wallingford, England. Stern was best known for Monogram, The Rueful Mating and a five-book family saga, The Matriarch, that became a successful London play and a Hollywood movie...
Shot in Hong Kong by Warner Bros., Enter the Dragon is made - in English - with Hollywood expertise and a certain rather lighthearted affection for the excesses and silliness of the whole Kung Fu genre. During one of the hero's few moments of repose, he advises a pupil who wants to learn the secrets of personal combat: "Feel - don't think...
...made a perilous trip across the German border with $50,000-the price of freedom for 500 Jews. She was equally skilled in personal combat. She once flung a chair through Tallulah Bankhead's door. On another occasion, having learned that Hammett had another woman in his Hollywood house, she flew across the country, smashed up his bar, and caught the next plane back to New York...