Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's concern in this election year lies more in gaining votes than in viewing, however. His chief interest seems to be to gain the support of the Screen Actors Guild. The guild, in an attempt to alleviate unemployment among Hollywood actors, is asking the Federal Communications Commission to limit reruns to 25% of prime evening time (v. 45% now, according to S.A.G.) and to require the networks to produce more original programming...
...before he uses his revolver or standing in front of a mirror adjusting the brim of his hat until it is just so. The hat, unfortunately, looks like a felt pie pan, and Delon moves mechanically through the action. Melville means to pay sober hom age to all the Hollywood films that did all this but better. It is a pity that for all its virtues, The Godson's patina of high seriousness renders every scene forced and selfconscious...
...interest in this quirkish thriller about a couple of Los Angeles gumshoes on their uppers. Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are two private eyes who look as if they just got pulled out of a lineup. Their office is off a parking lot behind Hollywood Boulevard, although you'd have a better chance of finding them at the bar down the street, last two stools...
...kiss baby pictures goodbye -and Lear typically made it for them. Posing as a New York Times reporter, he got Danny Thomas' phone number from an agent. He called Thomas and offered him a piece of material for a benefit engagement that night at Ciro's in Hollywood. "How long will it run?" asked Thomas. "How long do you need?" replied Lear. "Seven minutes." Simmons and Lear wrote and delivered a routine in two hours, and Thomas liked it enough to use it. In the audience was David Susskind, then a New York agent, who was so impressed...
Died. William Boyd, 74, whose portrayal of Hopalong Cassidy entertained youthful audiences for a quarter of a century; in South Laguna, Calif. The son of an Ohio farm laborer, Boyd went to Hollywood in 1915 in search of good times, glory and romance. A star of silent films, he earned more than $100,000 a year during the '20s, but his career as a screen lover was over by 1935 when he made the first of 66 Hopalong Cassidy movies. During the '40s, Boyd shrewdly bought the TV rights to his old westerns, then began producing an additional...