Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOVE independence more than anything," says John Cassavetes. With the dedication of an artist and the disposition of a Greek gunrunner, he has spent much of his professional life fighting for it. So, by all rights, this should be his era-the era of the "new Hollywood," born out of the success of Easy Rider, and a time in which film makers can enjoy unrestricted personal expression. Cassavetes has heard a good deal about the "new Hollywood." He just cannot find...
...then (1964), Cassavetes had decided that artistic control and freedom from front-office interference are as necessary to moviemaking as a camera and film. He was through with Hollywood, new or old. Hollywood was only too glad to reciprocate...
That was Jack Nicholson's first try for an acting job, and it was 14 years before he was needed that badly. Then, as the one articulate, genuinely comic character in Easy Rider, Nicholson became a leading participant in the upheaval that has caused Hollywood, for better or for worse, to churn out an endless series of "relevant," youth-oriented little movies. The role won him the New York Film Critics' Award, an Academy Award nomination and a leading role in Director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge. In the meantime he is appearing in Five Easy Pieces...
...married, and has a seven-year-old daughter. Now he has a capsule description of his life: "I read, swim, go out, have love affairs." The old Nicholson "used to rant a lot of politics" and had a temper that went off like a Roman candle. A waitress in Hollywood once brought him a well-done steak and proceeded to claim that it was rare. Nicholson protested, spluttered, and then -splat!-the steak hit the restaurant ceiling. "I don't throw steaks around the dining room any more," says Nicholson. His outbursts nowadays have a purpose. Recently, while filming...
Even the worst shows are occasionally capable of entertainmentand even enlightenment. "Besides," says a major Hollywood packager, "it's not fair to compare commercial programming and Sesame Street. Give me $8,000,000, and I can come up with educational programming too." But ABC's Chuck Jones sees Sesame Street much the same way kids doas an entryway. "O.K., Sesame Street isn't perfect," he says. "But it began something. Walt Disney opened up character animation. Sesame Street opened children's TV to taste and wit and substance. It made the climate right for improvement...