Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...media hot and media cool have shrunk the world to the dimensions of Marshall McLuhan's global village, then last week's Academy Awards made a certain amount of sense. Hollywood's annual orgy of self-adulation was really the commencement exercises at good old Global Village High, complete with prizes, dull speeches, strained humor, amateurish entertainment-and one hell of a party afterward, for winners and losers alike. At least two things made this year's ceremony, silly as it always is, a little bit different: the most popular girl ended up winning none...
...actress award. To be sure, there were complaints that her performance as Jenny Cavilleri in Love Story wasn't quite up to her Brenda Patimkin in 1969's Goodbye, Columbus. But-by Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount's growing profits...
...score. It was too much to expect that she would also have picked the Oscar ceremony's best decolletage, which clearly and defiantly belonged to Sally Kellerman (M *A* S*-H). The major surprise was the unwanted Oscar that went to Scott, whose well-publicized determination to snub Hollywood's "meat parade" was the butt of what passed for the evening's jokes. As for Scott himself, he slept through the televised ceremony at his New York farm; his sons woke him up to accept a mock substitute award from some friends: a statue of Abraham Lincoln...
...well. Despite a sallow complexion, slight figure and somewhat crooked teeth, she has drawn accolades for her enigmatic, sexually energetic characterizations. Her intricate rendition of the D.H. Lawrence heroine Gudrun in Women in Love won her an Oscar last week at the Academy Awards in Hollywood...
...Beyond all that, the demands of domesticity may eventually outweigh her professional ambition. "I've essentially accomplished what I set out to do, and I'll be ready to quit the day my son says, 'I don't want you to go out.' " In Hollywood such familiar pronouncements have become grain-of-salt cliches. In England, at 51 Harvey Road, the forthright mistress of the house means what she says...