Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advised to dial WANT ADS. In Dade County, Fla., the telephone name of a mortgage company is FREEDOM. A Pontiac auto dealer in Los Angeles is available at GO GO FUN, the Suicide Prevention Office at HELP NOW; and most startling of all, for a recorded sermon from Hollywood's First Methodist Church, interested parties simply dial GOD DAMN. (MONKEYS, which used to connect callers with the Los Angeles Zoo, has recently been disconnected...
...Hollywood Man. Coming up in 1970, in addition to M.A.S.H. and Start the Revolution, are two more Sutherland films. In Kelly's Warriors, a World War II farce, he portrays an oddball tank commander named Oddball. Canadian Producer-Director Almond has starred him in The Act of the Heart with Mrs. Almond, Genevieve Bujold. Although now based in Hollywood, Sutherland is very much the un-Hollywood man. Most of his clothes are hand-me-downs from his movies, and his only two luxuries are his sports cars, a Ferrari and a Lotus (on which he is still making payments...
Today Annie has graduated to a ramshackle semicommune in the Hollywood Hills, surrounded by the vats, bottles and colors of her Water Baby Dye Works. Most of the works is out of doors -which is almost necessary, because Annie uses lye and sodium hydrosulfite, resulting in fumes that make it necessary for her to cover her hair, wear rubber gloves and an apron, and douse herself thoroughly in vinegar at the end of a dyeing...
Because of the shortage of fine workmanship, Hollywood is hard put to keep up with the tie-dye boom-which has spread to everything from long-John underwear at $10 a set to wall hangings at $500. After Annie, the West Coast tie-dyer most in demand is Artist Bert Bliss, who has been at it for more than 20 years. Bliss, who works with rayon chiffons, cottons and velvets, does his dyeing in the kitchen, like any housewife. And instead of Annie's concoctions of lye and anilines, he uses a home dyeing product called Rit, right from...
...further promoted with his No-Bra bra, clinging knit minidresses, "Swiss cheese" swimsuits and see-through blouses. All that pioneering so exhausted Rudi that he treated himself to a year's sabbatical in order to restore his flagging energies; he convalesced comfortably in Tangier, Paris and the Hollywood hills. Now Gernreich is back on the scene, a radical turned revolutionary. No longer content with trying to change fashion, he seems determined to do away with...