Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood previews are hardly the big deals they would have you believe-out in Los Angeles they crank out two or three a week and even the daily smog alert generates more excitement. But here in Boston where the only matters of course seem to be 10" snowfalls and nurses discovered strangled in their Back Bay apartments, Hollywood-typed previews are not so easily dispatched with, By December 18, with Christmas vacation only hours away, most of the Harvard community had already departed for its geographically distributed homes, except for those lucky few ... after all, man, who'd be crazy...
...despite the disappointment of one girl who demanded to know "Where you can get a candy bar around there?"-the crowd was packed tighter than a bunch of high school girls trying to extract autographs from Bobby Orr. And that, you see, made all the difference. For out in Hollywood, no matter how bad the film being previewed, the booze comes after the flick...
...single bit of background action, and though the hockey boys applauded themselves extravagantly, precious little of Harvard showed up in the final film. Functionally, Harvard was there simply to provide an excuse for connecting up terribly upper-class Ryan O'Neal with lower middle-class Ali McGraw, whom Hollywood seems to have slated to pick up all the ethnic roles than Anthony Quinn can no longer play. The screenplay could have been set on a cross-town bus during the recent New York taxi strike and it wouldn't have really made any difference...
...through some guy telling us how Segal had written the screen play in just one weekend ("The Lost Weekend," someone yelled back): through another guy's apostrophe to this "pure and simple love story" (a premarital affair between a foul-mouthed Cliffie and an Oedipal jock is now by Hollywood's eyes pure and simple ?); through a third's attempt to thank Pusey sidekick Bentinck-Smith (although he kept mispronouncing it Benting ) for allowing the film crew on campus as "friendly trespassers." And when Segal concluded it all by referring to Harvard as "an institution for which everyone here...
Later in the evening, Arthur Hiller confided a few observations of his own. "I talked with those Wellesley girls and they said, 'You know, Mr. Hiller, you're going to have a problem with the Harvard guys. You'll be filming a big Hollywood movies on their campus, but they'll pretend to ignore you. They'll keep their cool at all times.' Well, now, I don't think that's so. I was up in Harvard Yard yesterday, walking with Ali McGraw, and you should have seen the freshmen hanging out the windows yelling-Aliiiiiiiii, yoo hoooooo...