Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reader would find in The Phoenix every week that Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice was showing in Boston: "Two young married couples find that the cost of sexual and marital experimentation is higher than they had reckoned and as they beat a quick retreat from philosophical bed swapping, Hollywood also retreats from the serious moral issues at hand. Only some deft humor and several fine performances save...
...herself, Petula Clark is an international identity crisis. In a 28-year career that began when she was nine, Pet Clark has been Britain's Shirley Temple, a French yé-yé singer and songwriter more popular at one point than Edith Piaf, and Hollywood's heiress to the fallen halo of Julie Andrews. Along the way, Petula has sold 25 million records in five languages...
...which should keep her 1970 income at the $1,000,000 level to which she has become accustomed. She is fed up with period movies like Chips ("I have nothing to do with 1924, really") and other musicals. Not that either picture was such a box-office smash that Hollywood is pressing her to do another of that genre. Right now, Pet says, she is looking for "a small contemporary film," based perhaps on the Paris revolution of 1968. But Petula, like Julie Andrews, may have trouble in eluding her old image. "At her worst," as one London critic observes...
...years Hollywood has exploited mental illness as a grim dramatic device. In Other Voices, a cinema-verite documentary that contains almost too much verite to be endured, mental illness is not a part but the whole...
...Road's peculiar combination of chichi, opportunistic avant-gardism and calculating commercialism makes it far more offensive than the crassest products from either Hollywood studios or the underground. The screenplay is the work of Terry Southern (again), who also acted as a coproducer, Scenarist Dennis McGuire and Director Aram Avakian. The three have taken John Earth's trim, controlled novel about a nervous breakdown in the groves of academe and reduced it to a madman's drool...