Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report for this week's cover story on Hughes; he was detached from his duties as New York bureau chief to help with LIFE'S up coming serialization of the Irving book. Eight other correspondents took up the task. Donn Downing tracked down friends from Hughes' Hollywood days as well as business associates. In Washington, Jerry Hannifin assayed Hughes' contributions to the aeronautical world, while Jess Cook interviewed Irving. Meanwhile, Roger Williams, John Tompkins and James Willwerth were also sifting Manhattan sources. Don Neff journeyed to Las Vegas and Carson City to interview state officials...
...Originally, Hughes demanded that no publicity be given the project until 30 days after the final manuscript had been received and approved. But word seeped out that Robert Eaton, a sometime Hollywood novelist and sixth husband of Lana Turner, was about to publish a book on Hughes. In a handwritten, nine-page letter dated Nov. 17, 1971, Hughes told McGraw-Hill Book Co. President Harold McGraw Jr. that he had nothing to do with Eaton's project and that it was now all right to announce Irving's book. A version of Eaton's work on Hughes is being published...
...grave and skinny Texas boy with an inheritance of half a million dollars and control of his father's Hughes Tool Co.. which owned the patent on a conical drill bit that helped open up the oilfields. Hughes married a young Texas aristocrat, Ella Rice, and headed for Hollywood. A gangling Texas prodigy, he broke into moviemaking by producing a flop or two and then, with a combination of gambler's profligacy and an obsessive genius for detail, started turning out hits (Hell's Angels, Scarface, The Outlaw) and stars (Jean Harlow. Pat O'Brien. Jane Russell...
Hughes had a habit of setting up starlets in lavish houses around Hollywood. Generally he slept with each only once, but continued to pay her rent thereafter. Once he was convinced he had contracted a venereal disease from a movie actress. He called Noah Dietrich in the Houston headquarters of Hughes Tool and ordered him to Los Angeles on "an emergency" errand. There, Dietrich was instructed to go to an empty apartment and pick up a laundry bag containing Hughes' clothing; he was to burn it in a vacant lot. Dietrich simply donated the clothes to charity...
...also laxity at the most basic levels: at judging whether films being made are simply interesting enough to an audience involved in cultural and social action, whether the men who make the films are interested in changing or analyzing the world--even as small a part of it as Hollywood. The agonizing tension communicated by the old crusaders--Agee, MacDonald, Warshow--is now lacking. Since the educated came to recognize that talented men have already created lasting works of cinema art, it's become more acceptable to say, sniff, that Dreyer is a poet in light; or, sigh, that John...