Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie is solidly in the tradition of Hollywood barbed-wire melodrama, the kind where Otto Preminger. playing the camp commandant, was always striding about in high black boots, smoking luxuriously and sneering at his desperate charges. Indeed, there is such a character here, a Citizen Major ("I'm not going to fool around with you. If you want to go back to Siberia..."). In the old Hollywood versions, women appeared only in flashbacks. In The First Circle they are present as warders whose proximity causes some inmates to writhe on their bunks of an evening and groan, "Give...
...squat frame, the moonface, the rubbery lips that were ever consuming a $1 cigar, the metallic voice that landed like a tattoo of blows-Edward G. Robinson seemed not at all constructed for Hollywood's romantic era or for surviving his early typecasting as super-mug. Yet Robinson packed such intense integrity into every role, focused his steely talent with such skill, aged with such grace, that when he died of cancer last week at 79, he truly deserved the accolades strewn upon his memory...
...MONDAY: Hollywood Television Theater. Jean Renoir's 1957 drama "Carola"; set during the German occupation, explores the divided loyalties of a French actress. First major production of play stars Leslie Car on and Mel Ferrer. CH. 2, 8 p.m. Color...
...television project at MGM studios. Working on a separate project on the same lot was Top Leading Man Jimmy Stewart, 64, so he consoled Bette with an invitation to lunch. "How come you never asked me out when you were one of the most sought-after bachelors in Hollywood?" wondered Bette. With just the right note of shyness, Stewart replied, "I never knew you wanted to go out with me." Reported Bette later: "It took me 41 years to land even a lunch date with...
Born. To Elliott Gould, 34, Hollywood's comic anti-hero most recently turned serious (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H, The Touch), and Jenny Bogart, 20, his girl friend: their second child, first son; in Hollywood. Name...