Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HOLLYWOOD has recently discovered that politics can be used to spice up perversity (and vice versa) in catering to mass consumer cravings: pushing old commodities in new packaging. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion works out quite skillfully this newly elaborate and sophisticated formula. Directed by Italian Elio Petri-if not for exclusively American capital (Euro International), at least with U. S. distribution (Columbia) ever in mind-the production won an Academy Award last week for the Best Foreign ( sic ) Film of 1971. Which is a pretty good tip-off that no matter how "controversial" its politics, this pictures poses...
...dark theatre by a passive, alienated mass, film already constitutes a mystical, reified object, a spectacle that obscures the conditions of its production: that it is man-made, that it isn't a Larger-than-Life-Reflection-of-Reality, that it is merely a celluloid construct. The Hollywood artistry Petri employs, and the Ideology of Ambiguous Truth he promotes, reinforce the perverse relation between the audience and their fetishized entertainment commodity, his film becomes an exciting, confusing, reassuring, self-inclusive Reality: an Artistic Whole, fascinating, hence demobilizing. Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion, with its metonymical distillation of the Power...
Until this week, there has been little concern about the possibility of small turnouts from Boston and other student centers, and considerable elation over a swelling stack of bus reservations from previously inactive areas such as Sewanee, Tenn. (one bus); Hollywood, Fla.(one bus); Austin, Texas (two buses); Houston, Texas (five); and Madison, Wisconsin...
Peculiar Types. The largest group of collectors is American. Munich Auctioneer Count Arnhard Klenau von Klenova, who conducted last week's sale, claims to know of at least 200 American collectors. In his Hollywood home, Bob Hope has books with Hitler's name plate, several sheets of Hitler's personal stationery and a porcelain dinner plate inscribed "Kanzlei des Führers" (Führer's Chancellery), which Hope acquired while entertaining troops in Germany in 1945. The West Point archives, says the count, are also searching for relics. "Though I personally know only a very...
...astonishing thing about Stravinsky's development up to this point was that unlike Schoenberg, he never turned his back entirely on the tonalities of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries or on the modal style of earlier eras. In the 1940s, Stravinsky, always a wandering cosmopolite, moved to Hollywood, near Schoenberg's home. Yet the two rivals maintained a chilly distance from their respective hilltops. It was only in 1953, two years after Schoenberg's death, that Stravinsky finally embraced serialism. Of the dozen or so twelve-tone works he produced prior to his death, the best...