Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daughter. Until such a plan can be put into effect. I think all production and exhibition should be stopped. I honestly do. TV especially. Then in about ten years, or however long it takes for the American public to vomit up the last trace of the nonsensical sentimental myths Hollywood keeps pushing down its throat, Ryan's Daughter can reopen to audiences which will laugh it off the screen. Mass laughter is the only fit answer to such a retrograde monstrosity...
...only son of Darryl F. Zanuck, the last of Hollywood's legendary moviemakers, Richard Darryl Zanuck had a compulsion to succeed in his father's business. Short and intense, he was once described by a tennis partner as the sort of player "who gives you the feeling that he'd like nothing better than to smash the ball between your eyes." Just 17 months ago, young Zanuck achieved his ambition at 20th Century-Fox, the studio his father helped to found in 1933. After a career as a producer (Compulsion, The Chapman Report) and later 20th Century...
Storm Over Myra. What had gone wrong? Father and son had apparently had a falling out on a number of matters. Darryl Zanuck favored shutting down the company's costly Hollywood studios and producing movies more cheaply abroad; Richard Zanuck wanted to keep the studios going, at least until current productions were finished. Besides their business disagreements, Richard Zanuck had been impolite enough not to find film jobs for his father's friend, Starlet Genevieve Gilles...
...grew up in Los Angeles where he at tended the Harvard Military School in North Hollywood, Calif. He received his B.A. from Stanford in 1951 where he played varsity basketball-"very badly," he said last night...
There have been better years for movies than 1970. Indeed many of the most newsworthy movies of the past 12 months have little or nothing to do with good moviemaking. Nineteen-seventy, you may recall, was the year Hollywood attempted to cash in on the so-called youth market ( Getting Straight and The Strawberry Statement, both vile), the year three major studios placed their fiscal futures on the line with expensive extravaganzas (Paramount, Catch-22; 20th-Century Fox, Tora! Tora! Tora!; and MGM, Ryan's Daughter ), and the year Europe's three best-known directors came up with relatively disappointing...