Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HOLLYWOOD continues to colonize Youth, as in past years, exploiting our styles, our ideas, our culture, as if it has the right to grab up and sell back to us what we have created. This year they are peddling our Revolution too, at $3 to $4 a ticket. Aren't the ironies strikingly obvious by now, even to the capitalists? Or could they be just crazy enough to destroy themselves for a little more of our gold? Sadly, they are not. Bourgeois democracies expect and even rely on a certain amount of safe "dissent" they can absorb gracefully and thus...
People tend to believe what they want -or need-to believe. A recent Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times survey found, for example, 17% of those interviewed in Charlotte, N.C., convinced that the Apollo 11 moon landing a year ago was only a Hollywood fake. On quite another level, many Americans will not countenance the thought that U.S. soldiers could possibly have massacred Vietnamese civilians...
...Farrow as her glamorous André Previn conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jack Benny played Mendelssohn over the phone. Still, Isaac Stern more than held his own at his 50th birthday celebration. His rendition of the Brahms violin concerto was the hit of a gala at the Hollywood Bowl. At supper afterward, his observations ranged from philosophy ("Music is more important than musicians. The music goes on and on. All we can do is serve it honestly") to a pun inspired by Ogden Nash ("I leave no tone unSterned...
Though in the last several years he has received wide critical support, Bellocchio is relatively unknown in America. This may result from the acutely Italian flavor of his movies. Where the French looked to Hollywood for their archetypes and developed a narrative freedom from that base, Belocchio has turned to the Italian comic opera. China is Near has the lineality, characterization and coincidence of the nineteenth century novel, and is thus unfashionably paced. Bellocchio employs this style to internally strengthen his characterization of politics mired in conflicts between self-interest and ideals...
...this might be dismissed a? Hollywood's bright packaging and typical distortion were it not important to understand why many students ARE turning to "violence" and how these reasons relate to the motion picture medium as industry and educator...