Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect set-up--an afternoon alone with Liz Renay in her Hollywood apartment...
...California's Terminal Island on a three-year perjury charge, the adjectives were no longer necessary. Her name said it all. Liz Renay--one-time winner of a Marilyn Monroe look-alike contest, four times divorced and occasional artist--had herself become a grade-B, low-budget Hollywood legend even though the studios had long since black balled her for fear of her shadowy connections...
Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
...what of the book's occasional gratuitous mention of Hollywood personalities whom Liz claims to have known and loved? And what of its nasty little attacks on Robert Kennedy, whom, as attorney general, Liz blames for many of her legal pratfalls? Anything to sidetrack the conversation onto safer, more substantive ground...
...only judged them as 'lovers,' I never called them bedpartners," she demurs. And as for Kennedy, "He was the talk of all Hollywood. One day two FBI men came to my door asking questions about Kennedy. I really learned a lot from them...