Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really understands such musical attractions is Composer Dimitri Tiomkin. He was born near St. Petersburg and still, at 70, sounds like the quintessential Russian from Central Casting. "Ah! I am so wahnderful to see you," goes his standard greeting. Tiomkin is a true child of Hollywood. In 39 years there, he has written 125 film scores and won four Oscars. Versatile above all, Tiomkin has composed musical scores ranging from the lonely harmonica of High Noon to what sounded like a 4,000-piece ensemble in Giant...
...unique sterilization technique, Surgeon John Charnley, 59, of England's Wrightington Hospital at Wigan, has performed 4,000 hip operations and cut the infection rate among his patients from 4% to .5%. Two major U.S. medical centers, New York's Hospital for Special Surgery and Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, are now performing the operations...
...carpeted walkway. The path did not lead, however, to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the 42nd annual Academy Award presentations. The setting instead was 9492 Rembert Lane and the occasion the "42nd Annual Mitchell Academy of Arts and Games" -actually the second annual gathering of a rump group of Hollywood headliners determined to mock the mockery of the Oscar presentations. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton was there...
SOMEHOW, the Oscar survives, but the Glory That Was Hollywood keeps on receding into the past. Perhaps there really was excitement-in-the-air when the first Academy Awards were presented, but now, 42 ceremonies later, none of it remains. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will probably continue going through the motions, but the excitement, alas, will never return...
...Peck, President of the Academy, said-"a major news event," but largely because television considers it one. Perhaps there is some value in the Academy's "annual recognition of excellent achievement in the year past," but there is no need for the presentation ceremony to be public. If the Hollywood people themselves get a thrill out of their annual get-together, they would show more taste to keep this a private party...