Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among them, Ford, Webb and Quinn summed up the new prime-time TV season that premiered on the three networks last week. Some of the brightest and longest-holdout stars, now caught in the twilight of Hollywood and of their own careers, swallowed their images and signed on for TV series...
...during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that the Wagner-Hatfield proposal, which called for guaranteed educational control of 25 per cent of the radio spectrum, received little support when it came up before the Roosevelt-formed Federal Communications Commission (which expanded the old FRC's power...
Died. Spring Byington, 84, the durable character actress whose sympathetic screen portrayals contradicted Philip Wylie's image of pernicious momism; of cancer; in Hollywood. "Why should I object to playing mothers all the time on the screen?'' Miss Byington once asked. "Mothers scheme and plan and love with all the versatility of a three-ring circus." Though her maternal roles included Marmee in the 1933 screen classic Little Women and Mickey Rooney's all-knowing mom in the first Andy Hardy film, she reached the zenith of her career in the mid-1950s as the fluttery...
Longevity, translated into mass markets and repeated showings, is obviously the key to the new corporate film wave. It has an allure not confined to members of FORTUNE'S august list of the 500 largest U.S. industrial companies. Kirk Douglas, after 25 years as one of Hollywood's most backable stars, recently had trouble raising money for A Gunfight, a property with a strong screenplay starring himself and Johnny Cash (see CINEMA). Then the Jicarilla Apaches, a wealthy Indian tribe (gas leases and mineral rights) with a sophisticated investment policy offered to put up the entire $2 million...
...Like almost half the movies made these days, Gunfight was financed outside Hollywood. But its backers were not ordinary investors. The Jicarilla Apaches, a tribe of about 1,800 New Mexican Indians with a substantial income from oil and gas investments, put up $2,000,000. Says Chief Charlie Vigil: "We consider ourselves a corporation like any other." The chief liked the idea of bankrolling Johnny Cash because he is one-fourth Cherokee...