Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent Hollywood benefit for Pentagon-papers Defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, even the invited luminaries paid $125 each to get in, and Barbra Streisand agreed to sing to anyone over the phone for $3,000 a song. The resulting $50,000 haul was impressive, but the money quickly evaporated. Ellsberg and Russo are finding out that while the price of liberty may be eternal vigilance, the cost of justice can be astronomical. Their trial, which is now nearing an end, will have cost the defense between $900,000 and $1,000,000; the prosecution tab may reach...
...Kael herself could have become. If the early '60s, when she wrote for small film journals, literary quarterlies, and an occasional Atlantic or Harper's, she seemed one of the few writers since Agee able to avoid the occasional literary pretensiousness of Eastern critics, the self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times based solely on their generalized erotic content. She has made claims that "male...
...Great Spirit, Godfather to all the red men, has spoken. In a well-planned ambush at Hollywood Gulch he tomahawked Oscar, but it was accomplished in a most un-Indian-like maneuver. While Great Chief Brando [April 9] skulked in the surrounding mesquite, he dispatched a young squaw to the paleface council, carrying the war lance. Tonto would have been more courageous than that...
Died. Arthur Freed, 78, songwriter and one of Hollywood's best producers of movie musicals; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. After writing his first hit in 1923 (I Cried for You, Now It's Your Turn to Cry over Me), Freed teamed up with Composer Nacio Herb Brown and turned out a string of winners, including Singin' in the Rain, Our Love Affair and All I Do Is Dream of You. In 1939 he switched to producing and made more than 40 musicals including An American in Paris and Gigi, both Academy Award winners...
...about his social footing. Later, when O'Hara turned to New York cafe society for the setting of Butterfield 8, he was also working with something he had known intimately in the course of his journalistic apprenticeship. Throughout his career, when he dealt with these worlds-or with Hollywood, where he also did time as a scriptwriter-his fiction rang not only with the good dialogue but rumbled with a ground base of moral disapproval as well. Farr notes that he never entirely succeeded in sloughing off the element of Catholic puritanism that had been bred...