Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will do no good to look for villains or heroes or saints or devils, because there were none; there were only victims," said Dalton Trumbo. Vaughn's book proves Trumbo's sorry point: the Broadway and Hollywood figures he discusses are pitiable figures, betraying each other, groveling in the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) mud, victimizing themselves to save their earning power. The few heroes, those people who defended their integrity and friends, were the most obvious victims. If they refused to cooperate they were thrown into jail, blacklisted, and destroyed...
...Hollywood's dark-haired onetime sex symbol, doe-eyed Hedy Lamarr, claims that the book billed as her "autobiography," Ecstasy and Me, My Life as a Woman, is "an obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet" treatment of her life. So for the second time she slapped a libel suit on its publisher and two coauthors, whom she accuses of distorting interviews with her -this time for $21 million. Still no cigar. The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed the case-not because the book isn't obscene, shocking, scandalous, etc., but because...
...reputation of being a difficult performer to work with. Like Maria, she has had a troubled private life that has made her something of an untouchable flower in lotus land. "Miss Weld is not a very good representative for the motion-picture industry," complained Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Hollywood's dragon lady, when Tuesday was 16 and the star of a seemingly endless series of sex-at-the-beach type minipics. Actually, Tuesday's sins-odd clothing, bare feet and open love affairs -would have seemed quite normal a decade later. Her chief offense...
...Arendt to the long lines currently waiting to see Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Otto Friedrich has combined history and cultural journalism to produce the most vivid portrait of the period yet written. Weaving back and forth in time and place between Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Goebbels, between Berlin and Hollywood, between 1920 memoirs and 1971 interviews, the author, who is a former managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now a TIME senior editor, has recreated Berlin, and his city moves...
Harry Myers shuttles stylishly between his roles of unloveable businessman and laughable drunk, and Virginia Cherrill is as appropriately sweet and endearing as any in the long line of Hollywood waifs. The film, however, never strays far from its hero: this is the Tramp's story, and Charlie Chaplin is the Tramp. More than anything in the plot's evolution or even the set-up of individual scenes, the humor and-or sadness evoked depends on Chaplin's unique blend of esprit and helplessness in this, his best-known character. He always chooses just the right foolish grin, the exact...