Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bras and girdles, filmy negligees and deep-plunging necklines only point up the obvious, or pad out the underdeveloped until, literally, their cups runneth over. They are the antithesis of haute couture's slender subtleties, these fantasy models in the catalogues put out by Frederick's of Hollywood. They promise, in striking graphics, what any woman might achieve in styles by Frederick...
...years it has been clear that the only morality Hollywood knows is sexual. It's the difference between Green Berets going into immediate distribution and Ulysses hobbled by censors and X ratings. Meyer goes to the underbelly of the dilemna and shows little old ladies with their shopping baskets in their laps just how nasty sex can be. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a middle-class handbook on the limits of sexual experience, and if you can't squeeze the lessons out of the narrative, Meyer recants the dilemnas of each character at the end of the film...
...avoided new production. Says Vice President Peter Guber of Columbia Pictures: "Most of the major studios are sticking their heads in the sand in hopes the cartridge will go away-just like their first reaction to television." Yet Guber insists that when "the cartridge revolution" strikes, the Hollywood work force, now 40% unemployed, will not only expand but scramble to make films in three shifts around the clock...
...Hollywood's reluctant approach is caused in part by its concern for movie exhibitors, who may lose much of their audience. Accordingly, studio involvement so far consists mainly of selling cartridge rights for old movies moldering in the can. New York's Optronics Libraries Inc., headed by Irving Stimmler, has enlisted an imposing board of directors (among others, TV Interviewer David Frost, Documentary Producer David Wolper, New York Times Drama Critic Clive Barnes), but its catalogue is a mixed bag of kiddie cartoons, late-show features and sex films...
Against this background "The Revolutionary" really encourages me. While Hollywood keeps on trying to exploit and assimilate us like the grand, sick monster it is, it's great to see a new director win out-at least temporarily-within and over that system...