Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This instinct for realism has led him to graphic displays of violence. "It was a phony Hollywood fallacy to have people get shot and not seem to be dead at all," he declares. "I don't mind saying that I myself was sickened by my own film. But somewhere in it there is a mirror for everybody. If I'm so bloody that I drive people out of the theater, then I've failed...
...stage manager (Twiggy) is dragooned into taking over her role. The director (Max Adrian) even tells her: "You're going out there as a youngster, but you've got to come back a star." Sure enough, she does, for in the audience that day is the great Hollywood director De Thrill (Vladek Sheybal). While he watches the performance, he fantasizes how he would shoot the production numbers, enabling Russell to imitate the old Busby Berkeley style movie musicals...
...version of Kurt Vonnegut's recent play Happy Birthday, Wanda June brings to the screen for the first time a widely read and respected writer. Since Happy Birthday, Wanda June is an especially inept movie, it would be comforting to report that Vonnegut has been victimized by the Hollywood barbarians, his work vulgarized beyond recognition. But it is not so. Vonnegut's own company (called, with inadvertent irony, Sourdough Ltd.) co-produced the film. His name appears in the traditional superstar's position above the title, implying not only box office eminence but a certain pride...
...invited to Hollywood by Columbia Pictures, but the studio's boss at the time, Harry Cohn, vetoed him on the grounds that Falk had a glass eye (he lost his right eye as the result of a tumor when he was three). "Look," Cohn said to him, "for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes." Falk went to other studios, and in his first two pictures earned Oscar nominations in the supporting-actor category-one for his vicious evocation of Abe Reles in Murder Inc. (1960), the other for his Runyonesque hood in Frank Capra...
...group therapy every week, refuses to fly or even leave Los Angeles for fear of losing contact with her group members. "I've got to be careful to stay close to people who can handle my madness," she says. The walls of her one-bedroom house in the Hollywood hills are covered with therapeutic needle point. But her worktable is covered with songs, and through them she has developed a philosophy to help her survive. She expressed it in one of her lyrics...