Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class) and Liv Ullmann are two of the finest actresses around. Their major roles include many of the recent years' more sensitively handled women's leads, so it's more than disappointing to see them choosing these roles. More so with Ullmann, because she's just arrived in Hollywood, the first of Ingmar Bergman's leading actresses to work in this country. She can't handle a minor character: she tries to infuse her role with all the drama of Persona, but it can't stand the strain, and all she achieves is incongruity. Jackson, on the other hand, proves...
They threw away their bras as a symbolic breaking loose, they foreswore make-up in revolt against the Look, and donned shapeless Indian prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status...
Problems involving the procedures of disbarment are really just technicalities when compared with the massive breakdown of standards demonstrated in the Watergate case. "What then went wrong?" A.B.A. President Robert Meserve asked an audience of lawyers in Hollywood, Fla. "Surely, it does not require a close reading of the code [to discover] that breaking and entering is wrong, that perjury is wrong, and that encouraging it is wrong." Part of the problem lies in the fact that on the one hand a lawyer as a counselor is expected to bring a detached and professional point of view to a case...
Died. Fay Holden, 77, English actress whom Hollywood transformed into an archetypical small-town American mom; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Died. Dave Chasen, 74, celebrated Hollywood restaurateur who gave up being a vaudeville ham to serve steak to the stars; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Chasen became a favorite with audiences as Comedian Joe Cook's dizzy straight man in the '20s and '30s. When vaudeville declined, he opened a six-table chili-and-spare-ribs joint in Beverly Hills. Chasen's show business comrades-among them, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford and W.C. Fields-became loyal patrons and helped build Chasen's into show biz's most glamorous beanery...