Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resisted the contemporary trends to class portrayals and clear ideological perspectives in favor of examining more fundamental spiritual maladies, defined by the banality of everday existence. Tod Hackett of The Day of the Locust, recently graduated from Yale, is no less caught up in the Hollywood dream factory than his pan-handler and pimp friends. West grew to condemn not Americans but American ways and manners, evident in the leathery rationalizations of business leaders, as well as the radical polities of many of his friends...
Someone in Hollywood must have read Rich Zorza's The Right to Say We. One Harvard freshman is quoted in that account of the 1969 Harvard strike as saying: Commercial film is now telling us that we are taking over buildings for the same reason it used to tell us we went to college-to catch, if we are male, at least one female sex-slave or, if we are female, a larger-than-life college man for a husband...
...parents can go see these movies and have the satisfaction of remarking "Oh, look! It's their version of the panty raid!" Suddenly, radicals are clean, attractive (long hair for men is now as chic in Hollywood as in Cambridge), and loveable kids who are merely frustrated by puritanical school mating policies, by strict drug laws, by the draft and the war it serves...
...departure for their own individualistic assault on good taste. The plot defies both credulity and synopsis, but has generally to do with the adventures of an all-girl rock trio called the Carrie Nations as they slither from one bed to another on the road to fame in Hollywood. The direction by Skin Flick Impresario Russ Meyer (TIME, June 13, 1969) is full of sexual innuendo of the kind that might impress a lickerish Boy Scout. The script, by Chicago Film Critic Roger Ebert, will surely tickle those who prefer their dialogue with comic-book balloons around it. The movie...
...appear to be doing a brisk business at the box office, thereby presenting the possibility of still more sequels. Perhaps in the next installment, both formulas could be combined. The Carrie Nations, for example, could tumble through the time warp. Or some of the apes could show up in Hollywood, where executive positions await them at 20th Century...