Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-fledged eco-centric. First it was some pro-ecology statements in the summer issue of Environmental Quality magazine. Last week he delivered his magnum opus, a poem cycle set to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, which was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. As the music soared, Henry versed about news-wise kangaroos, pacifist elephants, and hens and roosters who have been brutalized by technology...
...says, "Los Angeles is the Middle West raised to the flashpoint, the authoritarian dogmas of the Bible Belt and the perennial revolt against them colliding at critical mass under the palm trees. Out of it comes a cultural situation where only the extreme is normal." To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding a permanent "population of genius, neurosis, skill, charlatanry, beauty, vice, talent and plain old eccentricity...
...persisted in his optimism, though it has been severely tried. Just as he was beginning to establish himself in postwar Hollywood as a young director of substantial gifts, he was offered the script of a shrill melodrama entitled I Married a Communist. He refused to film it. Later he discovered that to his bosses at the old RKO studio, anyone who declined the project was politically suspect. Losey's political history-sponsoring Composer Hanns Eisler, supporting Playwright Bertolt Brecht, signing a friend-of-the-court brief for Producer Adrian Scott, one of the original Hollywood Ten-got him into...
...became a film maker of international reputation. Losey and Pinter planned to do The Go-Between right after The Servant, but problems with the film rights and then with financing forced postponement. "I was broke," Losey recalls, "and there was Figures in a Landscape, a nice big piece of Hollywood s- all ready to go. It paid a lot of bills...
...such top movie dramas as The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won a 1937 Oscar), Elizabeth and Essex and A Bell for Adano, Raine was probably best known as the creator of Tugboat Annie, the bumptious, bighearted heroine of 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and the 1933 Hollywood film in which Marie Dressier portrayed Annie and Wallace Beery played Terry, her soused spouse...