Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...premières last week did not quite deliver on the promise of an "exciting new world of television." They did, however, amply demonstrate both the exhilarating possibilities and exasperating problems of public television. HOLLYWOOD TELEVISION THEATER, an occasional PBS special in the past, emerges this fall as a weekly feature. It capitalizes on first-rank actors who are between movies. Last week's premiere featured Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in Murray Schisgal's The Typists, a talky tragicomedy about two white-collar mediocrities spilling out the empty cup of their lives. The high night...
That sound you hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
...children and the poor. Musically it is a far cry from the gospel or blues styles a black singer-composer might normally apply to such subjects. Instead Gaye weaves a vast, melodically deft symphonic pop suite in which Latin beats, soft soul and white pop, and occasionally scat and Hollywood schmalz, yield effortlessly to each other. The overall style of the album is so lush and becalming that the words-which in themselves are often merely simplistic-come at the listener like dots from a Seurat landscape. They are innocent individually, but meaningful en masse. Heard over a genial rock...
Died. Billy Gilbert, 77, comedian and consummate practitioner of the suspense-filled cinema sneeze; of a stroke; in North Hollywood. Though he claimed not to have had a cold since 1918 and said that sneezing was only a small part of his repertoire, Gilbert kerchooed his way to stage and screen success in the 1930s and '40s. His 300 films included The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Chaplin's classic Hitler spoof, The Great Dictator...
From this prominence, unfortunately, it is all downhill. Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy. Since the foaming manias of The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate, Condon's fine, random wrath has aged until it is nothing more than irritability. Once he could have picked up the Republican and Democratic parties by their tails and swung them around his head like...