Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover story on Liv Ullmann [Dec. 4]? I see dozens of girls every day on Main Street with more of everything than she has. For one thing, her mouth is too "loose." Is this all that Hollywood can find...
...Hollywood has not produced a single movie in the past ten years that compares favorably with The Shame or The Passion of Anna. I hope that Liv Ullmann has the strength to retain a balance between her Bergman-like innocence and the powerful klieg lights of Hollywood...
...insistent mariachi score contributes to the failure of the failure and so does the often garish Deluxe color. But there is a more important problem: Wilder cannot, when working in a place that is real, create a picture that seems real. His great environments of past films--the Hollywood of Sunset Boulevard (1950), or speak easy Chicago in Some Like it Hot (1959)--were made from studio sets, and even in Avanti' the best creations are the hotel bedrooms, which are not Italian...
...first part of the movie, which concentrates mostly on Bishop's devices for dispatching his victims, is the best-cold, fast and intricate. Pretty soon, after murdering a Hollywood businessman, Bishop decides to be friend the man's son (Jan-Michael Vincent) and even to tutor him in all the tricks of the profession. The kid has his own personal reasons for playing the star pupil...
N.S.I. is set to pay $480 million in stock next month for Hollywood-based Max Factor, the nation's fourth largest cosmetics firm, which has annual sales of about $200 million. The acquisition will give N.S.I. its first big footing in the nation's drug stores and in foreign markets. Max Factor's 23 international branches generate roughly half of the company's earnings. Mahoney, who believes that the firm has been run too cautiously under the control of the related Factor and Firestein families, plans to quickly extend the product line...