Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather passive contempt for the project, holding it at a redeeming arm's length while they went through the necessary gestures. Originally a straight-out attempt at pure exploitation, Dealing's script was concocted by Michael Crichton '64 (a Med School graduate who has recently taken up practice in Hollywood) in consultation with his brother Douglas. Even before filming began, the script was turned into a book (a la Love Story and Summer of '42) which was issued last year. Yet, rather than drumming up interest in the then uncompleted film, the book took a critical beating. And evidently...
...devoted only to undermining the studio-born materials with which Williams has been saddled. And so the continuing "suspense" music contains an echo of mock heroics and banal conversations that are staged in comical settings, like a San Francisco zoo. Of course, such time-honored methods of beating the Hollywood system are the stuff of which auteurs are made--except that in Williams' case, he never goes beyond such kamikaze tactics...
Connections were Niven's genius. They led him to Hollywood in 1934, found him room and board with Loretta Young's mother, they got him a seven-year contract with Sam Goldwyn-as well as a chance to play polo with Darryl Zanuck even before he had a speaking part...
Shortly after going to Emschwiller's film, I had a talk with Hoagland as he drove to a store to buy fifty pounds of meat. What, I asked, did he think of the future of the Film School-Production Company? With Hollywood dead or dying, wasn't film a dead end industry...
...whole industry," LaMagna said, "is going to be resuscitated by young film-makers making Hollywood-length films in their own backyard...