Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lipton and the other Beats suspected that Irving was merely slumming. Almost from the start of his year in Venice, he lived a kind of double life, cultivating wealthy Hollywood producers and directors. One of his friends was Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who is now the director of Portnoy's Complaint. Lehman introduced Irving and Fay to Irving Wallace and Stanley Meyer. Tn his private journal, Wallace remembers Fay as "a fantastic girl, incredible beauty-beautiful figure, beautiful neuroses, beautiful mind." His portrait of Irving is less flattering: "Fay told me Cliff is incapable of love. He is too selfabsorbed...
...made Irving's story always plausible until the end came. It is tempting to think that when Irving pointed to "someone up there," he was actually imagining some Jovian Hughes taking it all in with a wide, astonished eye. Perhaps Jay Irving was right: Cliff should be in Hollywood...
...heard that they have some hot stag movies floating around Hollywood," the pillar of finance told me. "If you can dig up a good one for me, I'll close the deal...
Well, this will show you how crazy business is sometimes. The banker had only one condition. He was a pervert. He wanted some stag movies, one of those blue films that were being made in Hollywood, and he said he'd come up with the money if we could get a really hot stag film. Noah told me this on the telephone. So I scoured Hollywood and came up with some film. It was disgusting. I ran it off at home to see what it was like-Billie [Actress Billie Dove] was with me and she nearly died...
...living giant of film history. I would compare him to Picasso in the art world." Martin E. Segal, president of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, was confirming that Charles Spencer Chaplin was coming to Manhattan for an 83rd birthday party at the center before going on to Hollywood to receive a special citation at the Academy Awards on April 10. Charlie Chaplin, a British subject who refused to return to the U.S. for 20 years after the Attorney General demanded that he prove his "moral worth," said he had no more hard feelings. "I had my say," declared Charlie...