Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written material goes to the puppeteers and the live actors, who customarily work on separate daysexcept for Oscar and Big Bird, who mix readily with humans. Five tape machines are used to record and edit the showand to mix in the animation that was done earlier in Hollywood. About two weeks later, the show is aired, bloopers and all. Indeed, Producer Jon Stone is rather proud of the bloopers. When a kid on the show asked Folk Singer Leon Bibb in mid-chant, "How come you're sweatin'?," it was left...
...whose main fear is that they'll end up picking tomatoes for a hard-driving foreman, "being swept in among those countless lives lost hour by captive hour scratching at the miserable earth." Billy Tully and Ernie Munger are also far from the images of corrupt heavyweights fostered by Hollywood liberals like Abe Polonsky or Robert Rossen, who use boxing as an easy target-its rottenness symbolizing the festering passions of a nation. Tully and Munger are not fall guys for reformists, but men of substance, with more than a bit of sensitivity. They are even aware of their limits...
...weren't already obvious to all the world that Hollywood is nothing but a sexist conspiracy, Washington's American Film Institute has gone to the trouble of collecting some glaring examples. Among them: Choreographer Busby Berkeley's Dames, with its kaleidoscopic chorines demonstrating "the woman as object"; Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, playing a liberated female journalist, only to fade out in the kitchen when Spencer Tracy calls her "unfeminine" because she can't cook; Bette Davis' surrender to Henry Fonda in Jezebel which, according to the program notes, is "an object...
...superhuman strength. But many macrobiotics use the diet to become less aggressive and, above all, more spiritual. "It's not the food that is important so much. It is the understanding. Through your food you are trying to attain the order of the universe," says Jimmy Silver, a Hollywood macrobiotic enthusiast...
Died. Fernand Gravey, 64, Belgian actor whose bilingual charm won him acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic; of a heart attack; in Paris. His Hollywood successes include The Great Waltz and The King and the Chorus Girl. After serving with the French Resistance during the war, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1950, Gravey returned to the French stage and screen (Harvey, La Ronde) and finally brought his flashing smile and Gable mustache to Broadway as the star of Beekman Place...