Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOLDIEER BLUE is just another Hollywood whore, trying to redeem itself by faking a socially-conscious heart of gold. The film opens with a Chevenne attack on a U.S. Cavalry paymaster's detail and closes with a Cavalry attack on a peaceful and defenseless Chevenne village. But it is only tangentially concerned with such affairs. The bulk of the film is given over to a kind of Western Love Story in which a hard-as-nails white woman wanders about, and eventually falls in love, with a rather silly young soldier. Candice Bergen plays the foul-mouthed girl...
...first place must a film about outrages committed against the Indians be told through the eyes of a fatuous white soldier who spends more time losing his virginity than coming to political consciousness? But then the answer is obvious. As Hollywood understands it, who would pay to see a film about Indians if it didn't have at least one white star and if it didn't tell its story through a comprehensible white racist intelligence? Can any of us even imagine what a film dictated by an Indian's perceptions would be like? A Man Called Horse has made...
...Frazier and Muhammad Ali will not step into the ring for another seven weeks, but a 170-lb. Hollywood talent agent who quit boxing in college to go to work is already declaring himself the winner. No matter who is named heavyweight champion of the world on March 8, Promoter Jerry Perenchio figures that he will pocket several million dollars in personal profit. "I've been training for this fight all the time that I've been an agent," says the 40-year-old Perenchio. "This is the greatest event since I've been alive...
...Huston says, there is something gloriously exciting about the atavistic Hollywood Ross depicts, with its cocktail party intrigues and Picassos in the bathroom. There has never been a better-written and more informative description of film-making than Picture. It is also exemplary as a piece of journalism. Ross's acerbic style speaks forcefully throughout, combining novelistic narration and selectivity with vivid portrayals of the nuances of character...
Worst about the film is its view of work in a factory situation: it resembles the buddy-buddy army of Hollywood's World War II. There is jovial scowling at work details, the obligatory lunchroom ogling of a big-bosomed French wench. There is no mention of union work or political organizing. There is little manager-inspired tension, or sense of monotony and ennui in the work processes...