Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the emptiness of Hollywood's recent productions. Their scripts shun new insights into human behavior. They lack even the requisite for plain entertainment-richness of detail. The incidents that occasionally occur in these films are threadbare. Save that gag. Sam-you'll need it for those ten TV shows you're doing after this script...
...long because Peter Yates, its "director," didn't know what to do with a slick script except stretch its banality a little further. You a paying audience, are offered fat sequences of self-conscious camerawork, which having nothing better to do than look at the dimly attractive props of Hollywood Purgatory-the pretty starlet, the lush plastic colors, and that good-looking Steve McQueen...
...Anonymous, a nonprofit self-help program for the emotionally disturbed, can justly claim a modest success. It was founded six years ago by Grover Boydston, a Florida psychologist who, like all members, is generally known by first name only. N.A. now has 5,000 members in 250 chapters from Hollywood to Haifa. As with nearly everything else about N.A., the figures must be taken on faith. Noses are casually counted, and any member can open a new chapter of the group any time he cares...
Died. Jules Munshin, 54, basset-eyed comic actor, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A seasoned vaudevillian, Munshin's hilarious antics in his first major Broadway role (a mustered-out soldier in 1946's Call Me Mister) established him as a star, and three years later he scored his greatest hit gagging it up with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as trouble-prone sailors in the film On the Town. Always drawn back to the stage, he went on to appear in such Broadway productions as The Gay Life, Barefoot in the Park...
Died. Alfred Newman, 68, Academy Award-winning Hollywood composer and conductor; of emphysema; in Hollywood. "If I want to write great music," Newman once said, "I have no right being here." Perhaps true, but he was honored with eight Oscars and 45 nominations for orchestrating such films as Carousel, Camelot and The King and I; on his own he scored such hits as Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Robe and How the West...