Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Napoleon, like Jesus Christ, has always had vile luck with directors. It is often assumed that Hollywood has a monopoly on witless historical reconstructions. Of course it does not. The latest film to prove it is Eagle in a Cage, an account of the Little Corporal's exile on St. Helena...
Died. John Chapman, 71, drama critic of the New York Daily News since 1943; of cancer; in Westport, Conn. The son of Poet Arthur Chapman (Out Where the West Begins), John was a photographer in Paris, a newsroom editor and a Hollywood columnist before he started reviewing Broadway productions for the News. Unabashedly proud of his nickname-"Old Frostface"-Chapman once claimed that despite the News's huge daily circulation (now more than 2,000,000), he wrote for a tiny audience: "A tough...
...something to Sapphire, the endearingly bossy housewife on the Amos 'n' Andy radio show of the 1930s and '40s. The voice is derived from the Delta screech of Butterfly McQueen, the eye-rolling, stereotyped black maid in Gone With the Wind, and of so many other Hollywood oldies. What is different and up-to-date about Geraldine, says Flip, is that "she demands respect. She is not a loose woman. She always has some meaningful employment, and she's never asking for favors. Geraldine's liberated-that's where she's at. Everybody...
...thinks about little else but his show. During the 26 weeks of the year when it is being taped, he is very nearly a monk. He has not been to a movie for 21 months, is almost never seen at parties or restaurants, and has very few friends in Hollywood. On taping days, he lives on little more than milk and honey, or the turkey noodle soup that he carries in a flask everywhere he goes-his life is awash in turkey noodle soup. "I mustn't eat a full meal before taping because I'll be sluggish...
...says Herbert Baker, chief writer on the show. "There's a wall. Inside the wall is a moat. And then the fortress begins." Few members of his show's staff have ever seen the inside of his home, a two-bedroom colonial that he rents in the Hollywood Hills. His awards-which include two Emmys-are placed in front of his bed. facing a brass statue of a clown, a gift from his friend Redd Foxx...