Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 8½ months of pregnancy, Dancer Juliet Prowse, 35, decided that marriage might be a good idea. She flew off from Hollywood to Stateline, Nev., with Singer John McCook and ordered up a wedding at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel -only to find that she was too late. The baby was on its way, so she rushed to a hospital and was delivered of a boy, 7 Ibs. 15 oz. Said McCook: "This will postpone the marriage for a while...
...literary conceits. The words "Feydeau" and farce are so tightly entangled with each other that they are close to interchangeable. The brilliant implausibility of his plots and the sheer bravado of his artifice are so stunning that even their author could not have been somewhat affected by them. Whatever Hollywood, and the entire Twentieth Century for that matter, have done in the way of farce is largely traceable to the influence of this archpriest of the genre...
Remarried. Natalie Wood, 34, most durable of sylphs (Splendor in the Grass, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice); and Robert Wagner, 42, star of TV's It Takes a Thief; aboard a rented boat off Paradise Cove, Calif. Billed as Hollywood's happiest lovers when they first married in 1957 (she was 19 and he 27), they were divorced four years later, each to try another spouse-she, Producer Richard (Downhill Racer) Gregson, and he, Actress-Starlet Marion Marshall. Both those marriages ended in divorce...
...DREWS Hollywood...
After sampling the sights of Moscow and Peking, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger turned up in Hollywood, accompanied by his children and two other tourists, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Mrs. Dobrynin. They trooped through the Universal Studio, and the children got autographs from Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Dennis Weaver. Then Dobrynin tried a little acting of his own. He hoisted a huge foam-rubber rock high over his head and pretended to threaten Kissinger. "Throw it at me," Kissinger taunted. "You've always wanted to." Dobrynin smiled and put the prop down...