Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire cast is first-rate. The producers were smart to turn to accomplished stage actors rather than the Hollywood Squares refugees who usually populate network miniseries. Marvin Chomsky's direction, while more efficient than inspired, is well above typical TV standards, and some of his images kick the audience sharply in the gut. He shows nude women and children marching silently into the showers; his camera takes in the piles of corpses in the ditches at Babi Yar. Unlike routine cops-and-robbers TV violence, which is too impersonal and stylized to move an audience, these sequences have...
Such incidents were quite common during the 18 weeks it took to shoot NBC's $6 million miniseries. In contrast to ABC's Roots, which re-created African villages on Hollywood back lots, Holocaust was filmed in the area where its horrors actually happened. One of the key locations was the Austrian prison camp of Mauthausen, which was used to simulate Auschwitz and Buchenwald. "It was a frightening place," says Berger. "The average life span of a Jew there was 48 hours. At one point in the filming, Cyril Shaps, a totally professional English actor of Jewish descent...
...Removal of family problems that involve no real dispute from courts of probate. Howard Hughes' will and Hollywood alimony suits are going to wind up in court no matter what, but there are many cases that could be settled by administrators without full-scale combat before a judge...
When David Begelman, defrocked president of Columbia Pictures, returned to Hollywood from a skiing vacation in Colorado last week, he appeared to have ridden out a monstrous scandal. He had admitted padding expense accounts and forging names on checks that he cashed, but Columbia had treated him with more than compassion. He repaid the money with interest, and though he resigned in February, he was about to begin work under a contract as an independent producer of films that Columbia would distribute. That contract might pay him at least $1.5 million over the next three years, more than he would...
...best shot." Mickey Jr. played for a Florida military academy in his teens, but feeling that he was "too immature to cope with the pressures of being Mickey Mantle's son," went off to sell insurance in Dallas. Now trying out for a Yankee farmclub team in Hollywood, Fla., he hopes to make up for lost time. So does his dad. "I was never around to work with him. I was always away," says Mantle Sr., 46. "But if he had had my dad teaching him and working him like he did me, he would be good...