Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acquiring the Spanish (he already spoke Italian and Portuguese) in which he would later interview Don Juan. But he became so unmanageable that an uncle, the family patriarch, had him placed with a foster family in Los Angeles. In 1951 he moved to the U.S. and enrolled at Hollywood High. Graduating about two years later, he tried a course in sculpture at Milan's Academy of Fine Arts, but "I did not have the sensitivity or the openness to be a great artist." Depressed, in crisis, he headed back to Los Angeles and started a course in social psychology...
...polished off his newest thriller, The Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named Ben Dinunccio (Lionel Stander) with a mysterious proposition that turns out to be a commission to ghostwrite the autobiography of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney). Gilbert is a runt who grew into Hollywood's No. 1 celluloid hoodlum and who, boasts Dinunccio, "boffed every leading lady he ever worked with...
Though Ailey toyed with Hollywood long enough to get a dancing part in 20th Century-Fox's Carmen Jones (1955), he soon was off to New York to study modern dance with Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, ballet with Karel Shook. Since the rise of his own company, he has continued to freelance extensively as a choreographer. His iconoclastic Feast of Ashes, created for the Joffrey Ballet in 1962, signaled a new fusion of classic ballet and modern dance styles, or the advent of what can only be called the Ailey style. "What I like," he says...
...such authentic research could not be applied to Godey's characters. His people seem little more than hollow molds waiting to be filled by some Hollywood casting director. In a way this is fitting. In print form, Pelham One Two Three is really only a short connecting ride between the scary movies that seem to have inspired it and the scary movie that it all too clearly aspires...
...middle-aged refugee, stayed to play kindly old Germans in more than 50 movies (Lou Gehrig's father in Pride of the Yankees, Albert Einstein in The Beginning or the End), but got his widest audience as the "little old winemaker" of 1960s TV commercials; in Hollywood...