Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scene 1: Hollywood actress takes the Concorde to Paris, where she will make a movie called, of all things, Airport 79, the Concorde. On the flight, she chats with a handsome Republican Senator from Illinois going to Europe to evaluate the reaction to President Carter's energy policy. Scene 2: On a boat trip on the Seine the next day, the Senator and his wife pass by the film location. He is hailed and invited to be interviewed by his friend from the plane, who plays a TV anchorwoman in the movie. Ending: Senator Charles Percy winds up getting...
...Kermit the Frog is the Mickey Mouse of the 1970s, and that Jim Henson's firm, Henson Associates?known somewhat alarmingly as HA!? will become the Disney organization of what remains of the 20th century. Maybe so; the Muppets have just finished making an $8 million film in Hollywood, called The Muppet Movie, which chronicles their journey from the boondocks to show business glory. Another film is under discussion; an astonishing variety of Muppet toys and other artifacts, including arm puppets, fills the stores; a theme amusement park of the Disneyland sort has been talked of; Muppets have been...
...swamp scene was by no means the most complicated. The script calls for a Hollywood talent scout (played by a hu man actor, Dom DeLuise) who has strayed into the swamp to paddle by, discover Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet...
...Mechanical Contractors Association of America, gathered in Beverly Hills last winter, had Hollywood stunt men stage cowboy gunfights, a man walking around on stilts and women circulating the room dressed as Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple...
...Rain and later did Charade and Two for the Road, has seen to that with his usual elan. No, what one wonders is whether after living off its own history for so long, satirizing and parodying the beloved forms of the movies' far-receded golden age, Hollywood can persuade audiences to come out again to share a laugh at lost innocence...