Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swinging than politicking. Since his election as a Republican Representative from California, he has settled down and indeed is about to marry. His bride-to-be: Susan Gherman, 25, a business major at U.C.L.A., who skipped studies long enough to catch the Emmy Awards with her future husband in Hollywood. On affairs of state she says, "I am very conservative politically...
...around on bicycles, dune buggies, motorcycles, skis, boats, surfboards, waves, cars. The town has more cars per capita than any other place, more freeway miles and car dealers. Its dealers, even retired ones like Ralph Williams, are celebrities. "People here will go without food for their cars," a West Hollywood Jaguar repairman told me. It used to be said that some people did that for their children...
Cars have become the main expression of the Angeleno's personality. A black man who works in a restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard proudly cruises Hollywood in a '56 Chevy covered in fuzzy chartreuse velvet, its wheels colorful revolving bull's-eyes and its fenders painted with slogans expressing the man's feelings (INTEGRATION...
LOVE WITH A WHITE GIRL). An Indian cocktail waitress named Mary Whitecloud lives for her basic-black Volkswagen done all over in marvelous primitivist scenes. Other cars are flags, dollar bills, insects and painted faces coming at you on the freeway. John Livingston, Hollywood designer, had to have a car all his own, unique, so he stripped a Chrysler down to its frame and hand-built his own shiny aluminum body held together by crude rivets; the car is pointed at the ends like a silver Buck Rogers rocket ship -enough to frighten drivers off the road on Santa Monica...
...them in L.A., are the car customizers, the people who are forever rebuilding cars. The Nossecks are typical. Donald Nosseck, some extra cash on hand from his chain of dress shops and dissatisfied with his Toyota 2000GT, took the car to Chief Kar Kustomizer George Barris, out in North Hollywood, and had Barris totally rebuild the little sports car into something more like an old Jaguar XK.140. After that, he couldn't stop. Nosseck next took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with his acetylene torch and put in a sun roof, apply...