Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael Chellel, who played the flasher in the NBC comedy special Just for Laughs, has a new act in Hollywood. He has published a map showing the graves of 140 celebrities, including Theda Bara, Humphrey Bogart, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, who are all buried in Forest Lawn -the cemetery satirized by Evelyn Waugh in The Loved One. Chellel sells about 40 maps a day on weekends (price: $5 each). For $25 more he will arrange to have flowers delivered to cemeteries for fans of deceased stars. Business is so good that Chellel is now giving...
Even if the press failed to penetrate the security surrounding the most controversial affaire de coeur in Monaco since Grace Kelly forsook Hollywood to marry Prince Rainier 26 years ago, there were other subjects to pursue. The guest list, first intended to include family friends only, read like a compendium of the Almanack de Gotha and Variety. Among those invited: two ex-Kings (Umberto II of Italy and Michael of Rumania), the Aga Khan, Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia and Frank Sinatra, David Niven and Cary Grant. (Britain's Prince Charles, otherwise engaged, sent regrets...
This week fortune is ready to smile on Beatty yet another time. Heaven Can Wait, his new film, opens at 625 theaters nationwide and is almost sure to be the most popular entertainment of the summer. A remake of a classic Hollywood comedy called Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait is a light, screwball fantasy about a Los Angeles Rams quarterback (Beatty) who dies and comes back to life as an eccentric millionaire. The movie has everything going for it: big laughs, populist politics, billowy sequences set in heaven, a murder plot, a climactic Super Bowl game...
...appearing in a few stock and live television productions, he got a screen test with Director Joshua Logan; another novice movie actor, Jane Fonda, auditioned with Beatty. Nothing came of it, but three months later MGM offered Beatty a five-year contract at $400 a week. He moved to Hollywood and, at 22, sized up the pitfalls of the studio system in record time. Without ever unpacking his bags, he borrowed money to buy his way out of MGM. Back in New York, he landed a supporting role in a William Inge play, A Loss of Roses. Though the show...
Even before movie audiences got their first glimpse of Beatty, he was starring in Hollywood gossip columns. Nominally engaged to Actress Joan Collins, Beatty carried on a public affair with Splendor Co-Star Natalie Wood. It broke up her marriage to Actor Robert Wagner, though they later remarried. (A few years later Director Peter Hall named Beatty the corespondent in a divorce suit against Leslie Caron.) Beatty was notorious as a rake, and not of the garden variety, by the time his first film opened. At the time, his feelings about his profession were mixed. "When I would...