Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crooner Rudy Vallee, 71, finally realized his heart's desire: to have a street named after him. The trouble was that the street he wanted his name on was the one that runs in front of his Hollywood home. He tried last year, but his neighbors on Pyramid Place made such a fuss that an embarrassed public works committee tabled the idea. In Lake Forest, Calif., some 360 miles from Hollywood, officials were more sympathetic to Rudy's ambition. So now Lake Forest has a street called Rue de Vallee. The location: a trailer park. Vallee was only...
...more than four decades, Oscar Levant slew his friends-with insults, wisecracks and backchat. When he died at 65 last week, Levant had become a Hollywood legend: the Oscar that no one could...
Life in Tijuana has moved in cycles. During the Prohibition era, the Baja California town glittered as a south-of-the-border oasis for thirsty Hollywood movie stars and horseplayers at Agua Caliente Racetrack; Alex and Caesar Cardini invented Caesar salad one evening to feed the throngs at their beleaguered restaurant. But by World War II, U.S. servicemen in California came to know Tijuana as a bawdy border appendage of San Diego where sidewalk hustlers peddled a startling variety of sexual activities and mainstreet bars offered grinding nudes within tactile distance of the audience. The town's foul...
...Burke company this year after the first evidence surfaced of a possible scandal. The list of prominent investors includes Simon Ramo, a director of the Times parent company and a founder of the huge electronics-aerospace firm TRW Inc., who also lent his name as a GeoTek director. Hollywood celebs who took fliers on Burke's oil funds include Kirk Douglas, Natalie Wood and Nancy Sinatra...
Funds never have rolled in for Downey. His fourth and best-known film, the ad-game satire Putney Swope, had a modestly profitable return at the box office, but Downey remained less than the hottest ticket in Hollywood. His next film, Pound, was shown in approximately four cities, double-billed with some unsavory horror pictures...