Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profession for teaching Darwinism to high school biology students, John Thomas Scopes left both pedagogy and Tennessee in 1925. He became an oil company geologist, prospected for oil in South America, wrote a book and lived to see the "monkey trial" re-created for Broadway and Hollywood. Last week, accepting an invitation from students at Nashville's George Peabody College for Teachers, Scopes, 70, found himself back in a Tennessee classroom for the first time in 45 years-addressing a biology class...
...repeated show-biz saga. Here it all is-indigent beginnings, ineffectual father, indomitable, solicitous and insufferable stage mother, fleabag hotels, one-night stands, the big chance with the kingpin producer, a smash hit at vaudeville's old Valhalla, the Palace, and at the final fadeout, on to Hollywood and immortality. The plot is as inflexibly mythic as the stock western...
Thanks primarily to the considerable charm of the two leading players, the characters never get lost. Belmondo's boyish bravura and Annie Girardot's wily sexuality lend substance to a plot as insubstantial as California sunshine. The lovers first meet on the set of a Hollywood film in which she plays the lead. He has been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing...
...does fame, fortune, and a Hollywood career grab you ? Cold you dig a leading role in 3 Lives For Mississippi -a film about the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers-which is soon to be cast in the Quincy House guest suite by Downhill Racer maker Michael Ritchie? Or perhaps you just enjoy guerrilla theatre, mind-expansion through participation art, poetry reading, films, tales of liberation, dram symposiums, cowardly lions, music, or sports...
Ritchie has selected Harvard for his casting ground on the basis of his past success in filling three major roles for Downhill Racer in a similar talent search conducted at the University of Colorado. He is seeking unknown actors instead of Hollywood stars because of the documentary nature of the film, and emphasizes the lack of necessary dramatic background for would be candidates. Close physical resemblance to the slain figures is non-essential, since the three civil rights workers looked different in several photographs anyway, but Ritchie is searching for approximate look-alikes in general appearance to the principal characters...