Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profile through philanthropy-he offered his mansion to the city for use as a school, his money to the symphony-were thwarted. Still refusing to be satisfied as the prince of pornography, Thevis bought one of the finest recording studios in the South and tried his touch out on Hollywood's biggest pinball machine-the movie business. Tilt, game over; score no points for bravado. Mike Thevis got no respect...
Barrera raised eyebrows when he kept Affirmed in Cali fornia this spring, where heavy rains hampered training and the horse ran against competition considered to be inferior to that back East. But Affirmed won the Santa Anita Derby and the Hollywood Derby, and obviously was in magnificent shape for the Derby and the Preakness. Like Cauthen, Barrera has enormous confidence in his horse. Says he: "If Affirmed was a baseball player, he'd be Joe DiMaggio. He does things so easy...
...Southern Florida has long had a large Cuban population, but more recent arrivals include tens of thousands of French Canadian small businessmen and their families, who have fled Quebec out of fear that it may secede from Canada and pitch the country's economy into a tailspin. In Hollywood and Hallandale, just south of Fort Lauderdale, 20% of the population is now French speaking; the Canadian flag flies over bars, restaurants and motels, many of which are Canadian owned. Longtime residents gripe that the new arrivals are clannish, refuse to learn English and do not participate in the life...
Nyiregyházi drifted to Hollywood, where for two years he sight-read orchestral scores submitted to United Artists as music for movies. It was a feat few pianists could equal, since it involved reading ten or so musical lines simultaneously...
...have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen goods. Maybe it doesn't make any difference. In the end, only history can conclusively determine whether FM is Hollywood's answer to Last Year at Marienbad or just a particularly rank piece of garbage...