Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironies and is dotted with nostalgic references to other movies in the master's long career. In this respect, a particularly great sequence is an embrace-assassination scene, which, besides recalling Notorious and North by Northwest, reminds us of the debt Chabrol, Truffaut and countless others owe to this Hollywood filmmaker...
...Newsweek, which devoted an entire issue to the '60s, promised "the tourist who really wants to get away from it all-safaris in Viet Nam." Alaska, Newsweek foresaw, would grow in population "from 225,000 to 500,000" (present population: 281,000). And Hollywood "will hold its own" against television with "fewer and more spectacular films," despite such advances as "wall-size screens" and "various kinds...
Died. Josef von Sternberg, 75, Austrian-born director of notable films in the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Flamboyant and volatile, Sternberg wanted no part of the then-standard Hollywood formula of saccharine pap; his works were starkly realistic, and as early as 1925, in The Salvation Hunters, he was experimenting with eroticism and the juxtaposition of light and shadow to create haunting shifts of mood. Perhaps his greatest coup was the discovery of a young unknown named Marlene Dietrich, whom he cast in 1930 in The Blue Angel and in six other well...