Word: hollywoodized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into others. When Jeanie Kasindorf, a writer for New West magazine, started investigating Columbia Pictures Chief David Begelman, she decided to query Yale, his alma mater, to follow up rumors of bad checks. Problem: Begelman had never attended Yale. Although Begelman was indicted for forgery and grand theft, the Hollywood types were more outraged that he had listed Yale in Who's Who. Apparently they figured that everybody steals money. Says Kasindorf: "It was the fact that he lied about Yale that drove them crazy...
After all, most fags are as boring as straight people--they start businesses with lovers and end up in Hollywood, Florida, with dogs and doubleknit slacks and I have no desire to write about them... But the failures--that tiny subspecies of homosexuals, the doomed queen... That fascinates me! The fags who consider themselves worthless because they are queer...
...Hasty Pudding Club yesterday named Hollywood stars Candace Bergen and Robert DeNiro as their 1979 Woman and Man of the Year, respectively...
Reynolds spoke about his film "Deliverance," which he asked that anyone who planned to attend last night's talk view before speaking with him, and talked about his varied movie career and his ups and downs in Hollywood...
Elaine's, as even people in Peoria know, is that raffish gin mill on Manhattan's Upper East Side where the sleeker elements of publishing and broadcasting gather to eat roadhouse food and trade gossip. Over the years, journalists have grown into Hollywood-gauge celebrities, and Elaine's has now become so chic, so select, so humid with status and power, that some people would kill for a good table...