Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead of a vitamin a day, Pest Control Executive Robert Loibl and his wife Louise start breakfast with a 10-mg. capsule of DDT. After 93 days on DDT, the North Hollywood, Calif., couple figured they had ingested as much of the pesticide (some 300 times more than the average daily intake) as persons consuming food dusted with the chemical would get in 83 years. "We feel better than we used to," crows Loibl. "In fact, I think my appetite has increased since I began taking...
Poor Romeo. He and his Juliet seem doomed to be endlessly reincarnated across the stages of the world. From Broadway to Hollywood, from La Scala to the Met, from the Bolshoi to Manhattan's New York State Theater, there is scarcely an evening when somewhere or other the young lovers are not locked in one another's arms. One of the most affecting renditions of their adaptable story is the dance created by Antony Tudor in 1943 for the American Ballet Theater (then known as just plain Ballet Theater). Last week, after several years out of the repertory...
...There are vivid cameos of Mack Sennett trying to spy on his writers; of Harry Langdon, the baby-faced vaudevillian, suddenly famous and going to pieces; and of Harry Cohn, the libidinous vulgarian who ran Columbia Pictures. It is the latter part of the book, when Capra returns to Hollywood from Army Signal Corps duty during World War II, that makes The Name Above the Title such a poignant reminiscence...
Abruptly out of touch and out of time, Capra quickly became hobbled by the industrial intricacies of postwar Hollywood. Attempting to retain artistic control over his films, he forms his own movie company, which fails. He goes from making innocuous Bing Crosby musicals to television science films to an ineffectual remake of his own Lady for a Day. After a few more luckless attempts to produce other movies, he settles into uneasy retirement...
...Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, ego so often intrudes in The Name Above the Title that history is sometimes obliterated. Still, no other book has given quite so vivid a picture of the way Hollywood farms out its once infallible film makers. Capra, now 74, has not made a movie in over a decade. The kind of happy ending he perfected on screen, the whimsical triumph at the final fadeout, eludes him in life...