Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carlin harbors no intentions of decaying, of joining the Show Biz Kids in Hollywood by the swimming pool and the shapely bods. The wiry Irish class clown and streetcorner toker from White Harlem still enjoys visiting his mother in the old neighborhood, and seems to gain perspective on his life as he ages. Soon his funny beard will turn gray--and age and eternity aside, it is painful to imagine that George Carlin will become a prisoner of his own words...
...Oscar nomination for her portrayal in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1969 of the well-stacked wife who turns uptight when her husband (Elliott Gould) and friends start to dabble in swinging sex. In The Last of Sheila (1973), she did a fine, funny job as a bitchy Hollywood talent...
...Hollywood keeps going at its present rate, rock stars may soon become the most ubiquitous movie folk heroes since cowboys had their heyday. Already this year we have seen films about the rise of '50s Deejay Alan Freed (American Hot Wax), the advent of the Beatles (/ Wanna Hold Your Hand) and the swan song of The Band (The Last Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect...
Apart from the New York metropolitan area, the most attractive areas for entrepreneurial immigrants are southern Florida and Southern California. In the city of Hollywood, north of Miami, two of every three real estate transactions in recent months have been made by French Canadians. Fearful of the economic chaos that could result from the possible secession of Quebec from the Canadian Confederation, some 10,000 Canadians (Anglos as well as French) have settled in southern Florida. The Miami area has also attracted a stream of Jamaicans who find life under Prime Minister Michael Manley's "democratic socialism" increasingly oppressive...
...Jacques Murphy, 46, notwithstanding his surname, is a French-descended Quebecois whose family has lived in Canada for five generations. Last September Monsieur Murphy and his wife Pierrette, also 46, loaded their two children and household belongings into two cars for the 1,654-mile trip from Montreal to Hollywood, Fla. Murphy had sold his insurance brokerage business, an office building and their house. The reasons for their departure, according to Murphy, were increasing governmental intervention in business, a flat economy and the prospect of Quebec's secession. In Florida, the Murphys became owners of a 26-unit motel...