Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most standards, Doctors' Wives is a terrible movie. This does not prevent it, however, from being fun. In fact, it is an enormously entertaining slab of Hollywood kitsch because of, not despite, its outrageous plot turns, its hyperthyroid acting and its determination to out-sex and out-suds even the seamiest TV soap opera. It is an example of assembly-line, big-studio moviemaking at its grotesque best...
...Even the movie business, the last dream industry left in the West, is dying now. The studios are going bankrupt and westerns are sooner made in Spain than in Montiment Valley. Still, as Hollywood sinks into the sea, a last western has emerged. It is Arthur Penn's new film, Little Big Man, and it was not only shot in real live North America but uses real Indians to play the roles of Indians. This is strange. Stranger yet is the fact that this western opens and closes in an old-age home...
...rather presumptuous lecture to the Cubans, that they have no right to "waste" their precious resources on such "reactionary" films, misses the point completely. Whatever its defects may be, Memories of Underdevelopment is a daring departure, not only from traditional socialist esthetics but from the exhausted fictional forms of Hollywood and Western Europe; for that alone, it ought to be seen, and praised...
This sort of communications system could not exist in this country without incredible economic and political implications. If every television set could communicate with every other television set in this country, telephones would become obsolete. Videocassettes alone will cripple Hollywood even more than it is crippled now. In political terms, the decentralization of television will lend itself to countless aspects of daily life: communities will be defined more by issue, interests, or vocations than by geography. And on a personal level, total access to communication systems like this would enable each person to have more control over his life...
...moral of the story is obvious: the American people are human beings who are common in their diversity, who like relevance and romanticism, and who have not gone anywhere from which to return. ROBERT B. MARTIN JR. North Hollywood...