Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedy film called Cold Turkey, an entire Iowa town tried to give up smoking for 30 days and actually succeeded. This week the American Cancer Society will try to do Hollywood one better. It is asking all U.S. cigarette users, some 50 million people, to stop smoking for one day, Thursday, Nov. 16. The long-range objective of the third annual Great American Smokeout is even more ambitious: permanent withdrawal. That is not entirely a pipedream. Of the estimated 5 million people who gave up smoking for a day last year, a follow-up study showed some half million were...
...first-person novel were not difficult enough, Larry McMurtry narrates his new Hollywood story in three first-person voices. In Book 1, Joe Percy, a sixtyish screenwriter and seducer of bored young Bel Air wives, speaks of his affection for Director Jill Peel. Book 2 collects the machismo sputterings of Producer Owen Oarson, who moves in as Jill's great physical love. Book 3 is written in Jill's voice-a cool meditation on her life, her men, and their inscrutable ways...
...Like a Hollywood morning, Somebody 's Darling gets off to a slow start, but picks up velocity and life (and more than a few deaths) as it moves along. McMurtry tosses off a few good Sam Spade-ish one-liners (an aging producer toasting in the poolside sun is a "ninety-year-old french fry"), and a pair of good-ole-boy screenwriters from Texas provide boisterous comic relief. McMurtry, who knows the Hollywood milieu firsthand, reveals a nice sense of place and trade. The celluloid scene has been done before; what McMurtry gives it-as he gave that...
...movie is not without curiosity value, however, for some of Hollywood's brightest figures have tried to whip it int shape The stars are Jane Fonda, James Caan and Jason Robards. The director is Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men), a major cinematic stylist who works equally well with actors and ideas. Cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Interiors), though overly enraptured with the poetic uses of shadows, is one of the top craftsmen in American movies. There's only one wild card in this impressive pack: first-time Screenwriter Dennis Lynton...
DIED. Dan Dailey, 61, lanky, affable actor and song-and-dance star; of anemia, after an artificial hip inserted last year became infected; in Hollywood. A teen-age vaudevillian, Dailey appeared on the Broadway musical stage before making such movies as Mother Wore Tights (1947) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948). From 1969 to '71 he starred in the TV series The Governor...