Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought Animal House was gross? Try mud fights. Cheryl Ladd emerges from one in her upcoming ABC-TV fantasy about a South Dakota girl who succeeds in Hollywood. In it, Ladd and several dancing friends are fooling around on the roof of a shed when they suddenly fall into a handy pigsty, landing in 18 in. of gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event...
...your article "The Deluge of Disastermania" [March 5] you grouped Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth with Hollywood trash like Earthquake and Blizzard. Lindsey's book is based on Bible prophecy. Armageddon will not be a disaster for those who believe in Jesus Christ. The disaster is your article...
...treated as such by their men or, if not, two out of three times they end up dying. Their deaths--Wanagi's and Ahbleza's wives die--only strengthen the men's resolve to be pure and unselfish; neither takes a second wife. This attitude indicates the novel's Hollywood morals; the good guys get better and win while the bad guys worsen and lose...
...with so much else in contemporary medicine, the issue is largely economic. No longer are the time-honored Christmas gifts of turkeys, bottles of bourbon and frivolous gadgetry that doctors give one another for professional courtesy enough to make up for the dent in income. Complains Hollywood, Fla., Pediatrician Edward J. Saltzman: "We are giving away $40,000 or $50,000 worth of care a year." Indeed, to cover the deficits, doctors may simply charge other patients more. As Pittsburgh Pediatrician Jerome Wolfson explains, "Paying patients are carrying the nonpaying patients...
...portrayed literally, Claude's odyssey to self-awareness would be as hokey as Hollywood's "trip" movies of the '60s, like Easy Rider. Instead, Hair presents the decade in the terms of balletic myth. The passions of a generation are poured into a single setting, Central Park, on a single enchanted night. The park becomes an idealized, but never sentimentalized, recreation of the brief-lived Utopias that once sprang up in Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and the East Village. Yet Weller does not get carried away by his conceit. His characters talk like people, not platitudinous flower children...