Word: hollywoodized
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Like many names used by veterans of the anticolonial war against France, Chadli's name is a nom de guerre. Algeria's television-wise reporters have another name for him, "Jeff Chandler," after the white-haired and rugged-looking Hollywood actor of the 1950s. Born in a farm village near Annaba on the Mediterranean, he served as a junior officer in the French army until 1954. He then joined the clandestine National Liberation Army, eventually rising to the command of its 13th battalion, based near F.L.N. sanctuaries in Tunisia. After independence, he was picked by Boumedienne to head...
...long shadow across Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll, of course, is Elvis Presley. He gets a whole segment to himself, which includes his first Hollywood screen test, an appearance on the Milton Berle show and the great title number from Jailhouse Rock. In Elvis!, directed by John Carpenter and written by Anthony Lawrence, he is also treated well but the shadows deepen even further. He becomes the classic figure of American success: famous, frightened and mother-fixated. The movie catches Presley's suicidal insulation, the shifts of mood and all his uncertainty, manages to make his success...
...comics go Hollywood...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Brian DePalma, 38, director of Hollywood chillers (Carrie, The Fury); and Nancy Allen, 28, an actress featured in Carrie; both for the first time; on Jan. 12; in Manhattan...
...Hollywood could not do better. A paunchy, rich Italian producer turns a voluptuous, poverty-stricken actress into an international star, marries her and moves with her to Paris. But the Italian authorities accuse them of illegally taking $6 million out of the country. After lengthy legal proceedings, the producer is sentenced to four years in prison and fined $26.4 million. His wife, however, is acquitted. Such have been the real-life ups and downs for Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren. Since Ponti is now a French citizen, it is highly unlikely that he will ever be sent to jail...