Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts to lure young people to the box office, Hollywood continues to cannibalize youth culture. A few well-picked, mostly tasteless bones...
Spiro Agnew has said that if forced to choose between anarchy and repression, the American people will choose repression. Hollywood. Tories like Agnew and Reagan like to periodically remind the left of the impending bloodbath. Wall Street Tories like Kleindienst and Mitchell, though, merely insist that the first duty of the state is survival-and, we may rest assured, they have accumulated a staggering panoply of powers for precisely that...
...lessons in French, Italian, dancing, yoga, singing, speed reading. "Once I studied to get a realtor's license," she recalls. "If things didn't go well, I thought I could sell real estate." With legs like that? No way. Last year she began taking singing and dancing lessons in Hollywood. She needed them. The first time she auditioned for Follies, she was less than impressive. After her instruction, she auditioned again. Said Prince: "She's made for the role...
...played Lola Montez, Calamity Jane, Salome and Moses' wife. She was the Flame of the Islands, the Buccaneer's Girl, the River Lady, the Scarlet Angel and the Captain's Paradise. Best cleavage forward, Yvonne De Carlo (real name: Peggy Middleton, of Vancouver, B.C.) steamed her way through Hollywood, sometimes seriously but often as conscious self-parody. The wife of Hollywood Stunt Man Bob Morgan and mother of two boys, De Carlo, 48, is an exemplar of the John Wayne philosophy: go west and turn right. "The whole company kids me," she says. "They call me the fascist rightwinger...
...Hollywood usually gets its bearings from the weather vane rather than the compass. Since the wind has been blowing chilly from Indochina, a new movie or two have gingerly and unconvincingly suggested that America's flaws are innate rapacity and violence...