Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Hortense Powdermaker, 69, a noted anthropologist whose studies ranged from Stone Age Melanesians and Rhodesian copper miners to Mississippi blacks and whites and Hollywood moviemakers; of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif. "Hollywood shouts to be satirized-I want to understand it," she said before heading West in 1947; three years of research produced The Dream Factory, that depicted a totalitarian society in which people were property, and power an end in itself...
Director Vincente Minelli once set trends in Hollywood musicals (The Band Wagon, An American in Paris). For On A Clear Day, he puts his star through all that is passe. As an Englishwoman falling on her London derriere, Barbra is camp Joan Greenwood. As the clumsy American who washed her brain and can't do a thing with it, she is Jerry Lewis in drag. During the songs, she slips comfortably into recording-studio Streisand, belting and purring Burton Lane's monotonies as if they were melodies. Funny Girl, her first and best film, seemed written for Barbra...
...Hollywood has never had much luck with pineapples, and neither has Charlton Heston. He planted his first crop in Diamond Head, but all that came up was a lot of white imperialism. Heston missed the pulpy movie extract of James Michener's novel Hawaii, but he is back to brandish his riding crop in the in-florescent sequel, The Hawaiians...
...back in 1961, British Actress Susan Hampshire had a bash at Hollywood. Or, as she called it, "the Land of the Bottom Pinchers," where all the men have "crocodile wives and ulcers and gold-and-diamond rings they twist around their hairy fingers. The big shots also had arms they kept putting around me that managed to be long enough to reach my left breast." Susan recalls telling them: "I don't have to do that. I can act." So she returned home to become an international star...
...work, the Sidney Furie film During One Night, and Hollywood followed. By the end of her stay there, the bottom pinchers and a California crime scare had reduced her to sleeping with a tear-gas gun under her pillow. She was also scared off by the proffered parts, some of the available co-stars ("I had never acted opposite a brick wall before"), and the long-indenturing contracts proposed by two studios. After five months, she headed home with nothing to show but a 30,000-word journal, a real-life Nathanael West work that is too libelous to publish...