Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Army buddy sop up beer and run through the great sports exploits of the past three decades, but she tries to grab the spotlight by doing the dance that audiences never got to see. This is a wickedly funny parody of a typical '30s-'40s Hollywood dance number, and Thompson does it so perfectly that 2,000 palms thunderclap...
Born. To Elliott Gould, 33, Hollywood anti-hero and ex-spouse of Barbra Streisand; and Jenny Bogart, 19, his girl friend; their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Molly...
...beautiful chorine who became World War I's foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch of a mob of high-class swindlers on the NBC comedy series The Rogues, cultivating yet another generation of fans during...
...most important changes have been in organization and attitudes. "Patients have to get to the right place," says Dr. Max Weil of Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. "Personnel must be selectively prejudiced in favor of the individual who can't wait." To promote this sense of discrimination, Weil urges a screening system to separate the critically ill or injured from those in less serious condition. He would direct the remainder to other departments or clinics within the hospital...
...insight and even the most elementary kind of entertainment. The story of Tevye, the milkman of a small village in czarist Russia around the time of the pogroms, his nagging wife and his nubile daughters, is a modest affair requiring intimate treatment. Instead, it gets a full-scale Hollywood production. There is a Panavision screen that does not enlarge the proceedings so much as bloat them, color photography that seems poured over the film like a thickening gravy, and a stereophonic sound system that blares the music at high volume and low impact...