Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loved to surround himself with Gatsby-like glamour and intrigue. Though not wealthy, he would lunch by himself with a bottle of champagne and fly to London to have a suit made-then fly back again the next week for a second fitting. When he became TIME'S Hollywood correspondent and began hobnobbing with stars, Whiting's fantasies became reality-for a time, anyway. During an interview with Miles he became infatuated with her and soon quit his job to live with Sarah and her husband, Playwright-Screenwriter Robert Bolt, in Surrey, England. Though his ostensible purpose...
...dialogue is straight from the old B movies about backstage Hollywood, but nobody is laughing at Agent Sue Mengers, who carries on such phone conversations nonstop from a desk piled high with scripts. "They never laugh at success," Mengers notes dryly. As a vice president of mighty Creative Management Associates, Sue Mengers is, in the rueful words of one of her ex-clients, "more powerful than the stars she handles." An overestimation, perhaps, but Mengers' list of personal clients is largely above-the-title: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Ali McGraw, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Tony Perkins, Tuesday...
TUESDAY: Oscar Awards. Hollywood's night of nights. Emcees for tonight's Academy Awards ceremony include Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color. Live...
THERE WAS ONCE a game made out of movie star gossip. The object was to try to list everyone that counted in Hollywood--the experts could do it alphabetically--according to who slept with whom. And the winner completed an unbroken chain of names, an incest ring. I heard it rumored that one die-hard fan had played the game with Harvard gossip, and won. But it's most likely just a rumor...
Sirs: I must explain at the outset that this full-length cartoon version of the book in which I first found fame was of great interest to me. As the presumed villain of the piece-although, I always thought, a heartily personable one-I was eager to see what Hollywood had done to my image and that of my old friends. Even a rat hears stories of the mangling of classics, and certainly Mr. E.B. White's narrative is a work of such stature...