Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RALPH S. SCHAFFER Hollywood...
...Michigan, Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney has been conducting a coy, behind-the-scenes campaign to win the Republican senatorial nomination for his personable, pretty wife Lenore, a onetime Hollywood starlet, who worked as Lili Damita's stand-in and had a bit part in a Greta Garbo film. His efforts proved insufficient last week to capture the necessary 75% of the delegates at a party caucus. But Mrs. Romney, 60, who had earlier insisted that she would run only if her party drafted her, declared as a candidate anyway. Though she is the kind of candidate...
...only 54 once, so Jackie Gleason got together with 800 or so of his closest friends for a monster birthday party at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. It cost $25 a plate, but it was worth it; amid the celebration came a phone call from the President. The White House gagwriters had obviously been at work: "The operator said we had a bad connection," Richard Nixon told the Great One. "I was afraid your Norton [Jackie's bumbling TV sidekick] had gone to work for the telephone company." Replied Gleason: "If you'd like...
Died. Conrad Nagel, 72, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After making his debut on Broadway in 1918's Forever After, the handsome blond actor rose to stardom in the silent days, appearing in more than 150 films (Little Women, The Jazz Singer) between 1919 and 1932. His resonant baritone was perfect for talkies, and he continued to star in films while scoring Broadway hits in 1943's The Skin of Our Teeth and 1948's Goodbye, My Fancy...
...Hollywood's new wonder boys have no guts either. Far from being seriously involved in the material they shoot, they don't even take the trouble to punch a little action and detail into it. In visual direction this means the old Neo-Realist aesthetic, that looking at events in the exterior world has a certain necessary validity, is misapplied in a fiction-film context-so that it becomes sufficient to let the camera run in the barren studio set. This discourages work on the images themselves. The structure of a frame composition used to have some meaning in Hollywood...