Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PHONE call jolted awake Paramount Senior Vice President Robert Evans at 4 o'clock one morning last fall. Walter Matthau was on the line-and on the rampage-from the Long Island location of A New Leaf. According to Hollywood Columnist Joyce Haber, Matthau yelled: "If you don't get Stanley Jaffe off this picture, I'm leaving. Who is this twirp?" What, Evans asked, seemed to be the trouble between Walter and the 29-year-old who had just taken over as producer? Matthau explained that while shooting, "I had to go to the bathroom...
That, as Matthau now knows, was 1960s talk. Hollywood is at high noon. Stanley Jaffe has leapfrogged over Evans to become chief operating officer at Paramount. The high-priced stars are being cut down to size, and the masters of business administration are taking over the studios, or what is left of them. A new generation of film-company executives are suddenly trying to cope with economic realities that their fathers and uncles refused even to recognize. During the past few years, for example, 20th Century-Fox wasted a great deal of thought on whether and when to change...
...problem is that TV is not going away and people are not going to the movies. Since the 1940s, the population has increased 30%; admission prices have doubled since 1959. Yet last year the box-office gross was 24% less than in 1946. At a time when Hollywood is producing work of greater artistic interest, the studios seem to have lost their moneymaking touch...
Perhaps the greatest violence of Soldier Blue is done offscreen-to Director Nelson's image. Five years ago, a righteous Hollywood organization entitled Operation Moral Upgrade awarded him a halo-shaped pin for his work on Lilies of the Field, which featured Sidney Poitier and a gaggle of fluttering nuns. "Apparently," Nelson says, "Mrs. Van New Kirk, the head of the group, recently saw an article about this film. I got a horrible letter drumming me out of the corps. I am no longer an angel. I consider it an honor...
...only carry technology to its logical limit. Instead of having pro football games played on a score of stadiums located in the centers of the nation's major cities, let them take place-without spectators-in one stadium located in a remote rural area, or better yet, in a Hollywood stadium mock-up left over from 1930's college movies. This stadium would never be idle; each day-or even every five hours-two pro teams could play a game there...