Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood...
...bubbled Alexis Smith to Lana Turner, "it's so sentimental and sweet. Just like the days of the Hollywood Canteen." With one exception, perhaps. At the World War II canteen, movie stars used to serve coffee and dance with G.I.s on leave, but now, Bette Davis remarked, "men don't dance any more." That said, Bette spent most of the evening on the dance floor, explaining, "I just dance. I don't know what the dance is, but then I've never known." Jane Russell knew: she led a lurching conga line through Manhattan...
...sometime Hollywood bit player who is married to actress Kam Nelson, Seagren reached the heights early, when, as an undergraduate at the University of Southern California, he shattered N.C.A.A. and world pole-vaulting records. Still, nothing that he had ever done before came close to equaling his record-breaking leap in El Paso. He gives at least partial credit for that effort to a new pole he used that day, which was developed by Herbert Jenks, a fiber-glass expert from Carson City, Nev. Seagren's pole weighs only 6 Ibs. instead of the standard...
GREGORY PECK is a mild-mannered Hollywood liberal. He defends culpable friends in private, and perhaps the causes that incriminate them. He lends lip service and sometimes money to social crusades even in public. But he rarely instigates an action that would make a difference to anyone outside of the film industry...
Died. Sidney Franklin, 79, Hollywood producer and director, whose 1942 production of Mrs. Miniver won an Academy Award for best picture; in Santa Monica, Calif. Franklin began as an actor in D.W. Griffith silent movies, then took a job behind the lens as an assistant cameraman. Ultimately, he became one of MGM's most successful directors (The Good Earth, The Barretts of Wimpole Street...