Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first in the country to conceive crotchless panties ("an exotic addition to your wardrobe"), the inflatable bra ("blow yourself up to your favorite size"), girdles with padded bottoms ("for unrivaled curves"), foundations without any bottoms ("the living end"), bras with holes in the middle ("a Hollywood favorite...
...York lingerie mail-order house in the late '30s when the notion first struck him that "there simply was not enough romance in the way of clothes. I was always making notes saying more bust here, more fanny there, less waist here." After the war, he picked Hollywood for home base and in 1947 turned out his first designs, using leering catalogue copy for emphasis...
Live Marriages. The pitch has worn well. By 1965, Mellinger owned 22 retail stores around the country and had gross sales of more than $5,000,000. This year, with volume already past $9,000,000, there are 38 Frederick's of Hollywood outlets, all but three of them owned by Mellinger. The others are franchised. They are not in Newport or Palm Beach or on Fifth Avenue. Instead, the market is in places like Dayton, Omaha, Oklahoma City and Youngstown. The ultimate target, of course, is the TV-numbed husband or the uncertain swain who needs some visual...
...Hollywood directorial debut of Harold Prince, this disastrous film represents a vertiginous descent from bravos to catcalls. Earlier this year, Director-Producer Prince won just acclaim for his scintillating musical, Company. Guessing at the aesthetic motivations behind Something for Everyone is a speculative pastime, but ever since his success with the musical, Cabaret, Prince has apparently been captivated by the notion that he is peculiarly endowed to interpret the nature of European decadence and its relationship to the rise of Nazi Germany. The same theme recently caused a bit more flesh to crawl in The Damned, possibly because the decadence...
None of this would make much difference if it weren't for the fact that the Perrys are considered courageous East Coast film makers, fierce independents who are battling the System. But the Perrys are independent of Hollywood only geographically; aesthetically they are at its very core. People like the Perrys, in fact, are the System. There are many talented and truly independent film makers in the U.S. But the Perrys peddle mediocrity as surely as Ross Hunter or any other Hollywood schlockmeister...