Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list for government-supplied housing. One, Avraham Freedman, mused about the future. "Look at the lights shining on the Caravan Hotel," he said. "It's almost like Chicago." I saw only one string of lights, but Freedman was sincere. "Trust the Israelis; one day it will be like Hollywood here...
...intelligence. And unbeatable, unbeatable cool. And a celluloid background that started unreeling 30 years ago. A graduate of the starlet's academy, Hollywood High, she won her first lead in the war film Dive Bomber, but failed to land either Co-Star Errol Flynn or Fred MacMurray; both loved flying more. Late Show buffs can catch her around, but not quite in, movie musicals. She was Mrs. Cole Porter in Night and Day and George Gershwin's gal in Rhapsody in Blue. Customarily, though, she was Warner Brothers' snow queen, a frosty beauty about as seducible as the Statue...
...Last Movie: within the sequence, cameras film peasants who are mock-filming Hopper (portraying a stunt-man) with wooden mock-ups of camera and boom mike, while Hopper remarks to Carson on the soundtrack that he doesn't mind if The Last Movie bombs and kills him for Hollywood. "That wouldn't bother me . . . then I'd be just like Orson Welles." Hopper seems a victim of his own method of production: a man whose love for the camera allows him to project personal fantasy-but whose camera vision and obsessions threaten to cut him off entirely from reality...
Fitzgerald, as Latham painstakingly documents, was always fascinated by the film and the new industry it had created in America. Representatives of the movie world appear as characters in Tender is the Night (1934), many short stories, and of course at the center of The Last Tycoon, the Hollywood novel Fitzgerald was working on when he died. Latham mines all these works for relevant material-including some passages Edmund Wilson left out of the unfinished Tycoon manuscript he edited after Fitzgerald's death and an early unpublished draft of Tender . in which the novel's central figure was a movie...
...biography. The Far Side of Paradise ; then take a look at the underwritten but magnificently researched Zelda . Better yet, take advantage of the Fitzgerald revival by getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which can now be found in every bookstore. In the past year, Fitzgerald's Hollywood works, Tycoon and The Pat Hobby Stories, have been published in paperback for the first time. So read them, and then take another look at Tender is the Night , his best novel. And, for that matter, you could do a lot worse things with your time than reading the collected...