Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...APRIL 7, 1933, King Kong opened at New York's Roxy Theater: the movie's gorilla hero, Kong, became an instant pop culture hero, a standard reference in Hollywood's list of greats...
Producing Moliere is always a hazardous adventure. He originally wrote his plays for the Hollywood aristocracy at Versailles which demanded a more ethereal and intellectual theater than a modern audience is apt to prefer. The language carries the entire weight of the play, and the actors must do a virtuoso job of speaking the couples so that they do not lapse into a sing-song monotony. The current Lowell House production of Le Misanthrope overcomes most of these difficulties with a competence which occasionally turns into a braven assurance, and lets some of the funniest lines ever written break through...
...Hollywood Television Theatre. "Awake and Sing." Clifford Odets's drama about the Bronx during the depression, with Walter Matthau and Felicia Farr. 8, March 6, Chan...
...marriage to Director Vincente Minnelli, was born into a bizarre fairy tale in which she was destined to be both the princess and the scullery maid. Her life had a careening plot line with glittering characters and fantastic reversals of fortune. At one moment she was a pampered Hollywood brat; at another she was holding together a disintegrating ménage, playing nurse to Judy and Judy's sliding career, hiring servants they could no longer afford...
Rock Requiem, by Lalo Schifrin (Verve, $5.98). An adept, well-intended tribute to the victims of Viet Nam, unfortunately lacking the snap and originality that Schifrin brings to his commercial Hollywood scores (Mission: Impossible, Mannix...