Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene required the leading man to enter a boudoir where Actress Karen Black, 27, reclined in a costume consisting of nothing but makeup. Absolutely not, said Johnny Cash, 38, Nashville's country-and-western singer, in Hollywood for his first starring film role in A Gunfight. "How could I do that and then record an album of hymns?" he demanded. To spare Johnny that moral crisis, Karen's topography was concealed...
...hard to stay married 50 years, especially in Hollywood," said the bride, 75. Indeed, a golden anniversary is such a rare event that a sizable if elderly contingent of the film colony-among them John Wayne, 63, and Pat O'Brien, 70 -were there to hear Film Director John Ford, 75, and his Mary repeat the solemn vows that they first uttered half a century ago. What's the secret? Said John: "Keeping your mouth shut." Said Mary: "Don't believe anything you hear and don't believe anything...
...main lesson of his first 15 years in Hollywood, says Director Robert Altman, 45, was to "get comfortable in my own failure." A bit too unorthodox for those orthodox days, he had been fired by Jack Warner and tangled with a lot of lesser producers. Richard Zanuck, chief of 20th Century-Fox, says that he would never have hired Altman for his last picture if he had known that Altman had previously made That Cold Day in the Park. Elliott Gould compared Altman to General Custer: "He always seemed on the verge of some sort of external defeat." But since...
What used to trouble Hollywood about Altman was that he turned the totalitarian trade of film directing into democracy, if not anarchy. Far from strutting around on the set with a riding crop, Altman is likely to operate the clapstick himself and encourage suggestions from second assistants and electricians. An Altman film is more like an improvisational encounter group than a showcase for stars and plot. Sally Kellerman, who played Nurse Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H, reports that "even my analyst said it did more for me than a man could." Working for Altman, says Sally...
Married. Nancy Kwan, 31, sloe-eyed Eurasian actress who soared to stardom in The World of Susie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and David Giler, 26, Hollywood scriptwriter, whose most recent credit, if that is the term, is Myra Breckinridge; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony in Carson City...