Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond the Law was much less humorous. One segment had some affecting portrayals of detectives interrogating murder suspects, and for brief moments the film seemed to vindicate the Director's theory of getting closer to the tensions of real life than do the cosmetically perfect creations of most Hollywood hacks...
...begging in the streets of a small village south of Danang. One day he found something to play with-a white phosphorous grenade. It exploded, killing his two brothers and blinding his grandmother. Nor was Lang spared. The phosphorus seared his face, creating a mask of horror that no Hollywood makeup man could fashion. It also burned away his eye sockets and eyelids, leaving him with large frightened eyes that he cannot close...
Charlie was edgy on the plane from Bermuda, where he had been resting for a few days before setting foot in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had invited him to receive a special award at Hollywood's Oscar ceremonies, and the Film Society of New York City's Lincoln Center was throwing a big party for him at Philharmonic Hall. But what about the audiences? Would they respond again to the comic humanity of his Little Tramp? Would they resurrect the old resentments at the leftish...
...week's end the Charlie Chaplin who arrived in Hollywood to receive his second special Oscar-for his "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of this century"-was still an old man who did not walk very fast or see very well. But he was not the same old man who had arrived in the U.S. a few days earlier. He knew that he was home and-as he said-that he had been reborn...
Foxx's break into TV actually cost him about $70,000 in forfeited pay from his Hilton contract. Beyond that, he had to move his wife and seven dogs from Las Vegas, which he loves, to Hollywood. Still, he is well aware that he stands to recoup his losses, and then some. "I was doing two shows a night at the club-90 minutes' work for grand-theft money," he says. "But television is the now medium. Suddenly I've got a lot of future." But the years of waiting have left him rather bitter. "'Sanford...