Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing to hit the screen since Monroe." Russell says the script, which he roughed out in five days as "therapy" after The Devils, is at once "a typical stage musical of the '20s, an homage to the great film musical fantasies and a satire on all the backstage Hollywood musicals of all time...
Died. "Prince" Mike Romanoff, eightyish, Hollywood's reigning restaurateur-raconteur for more than two decades; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. That no one knew Romanoff's precise age is a fitting footnote to the life of a legendary impostor who at various times passed himself off as Rasputin's assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with...
...latest entrants into the celluloid sweepstakes are convinced that they can turn a handsome profit. Says Tom Moore, former president of ABC television, who now heads G.E.'s newly created film division, Tomorrow Entertainment: "The big pictures' losing big is what ruined Hollywood, but if you take those out and look at the grosses on the smaller budget pictures, the business isn't so bad. We intend to turn a profit as quickly as we can." Mary Wells Lawrence, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, is even more explicit: "It's not the ego satisfaction...
...Catch-22s. Because they are unencumbered by outmoded Hollywood traditions of production and financing, and can apply fresh and effective production methods to an industry that has never been known for its efficiency, the new film makers may well succeed. All of them agree on the need to keep production costs in the $1 million-to-$2 million range, a ceiling that the state of the economy has imposed on old-style Hollywood productions as well. "We have no intention of producing Catch~22s," says Richard Kent, treasurer of Bristol-Myers, which will bring out three movies in the fall...
Today, with his second wife Vickery, Oates lives quietly in the Hollywood Hills beside a swimming pool bigger than their tiny three-room house. An American-history buff, he would like to direct a series of films about each decade since 1920; they will show the cultural extremes that can exist in the same era. He is currently writing a scenario for the first one, about a Wyoming farmer who rescues from a plane crash an urbane couple modeled after F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...