Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's vague story starts at the peak of Freed's career, when he was spreading the rock gospel on New York radio and staging riotous live shows at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater. Much of the screenplay appears to be Hollywood fantasy. In his desire to pander to adolescents, Writer John Kaye has transformed his hero into a Christlike figure: kids grovel at the deejay's feet while rockhating adults hound him literally to his death. The real Freed, a self-destructive man who died at age 43 in 1965, is far more fascinating than Kaye...
...Lear presented the chairs to Carl Scheele, curator of the Smithsonian's Community Life Division collections. The two seats will be preserved as "part of the cultural legacy of our country," according to John Brademas, member of a House subcommittee that oversees the Smithsonian. As for the Bunkers, Hollywood craftsmen are now constructing replica chairs for their upcoming final TV season...
...that so many people seem to feel. The Fury invites the audience to take pleasure in the revenge of those who are exceptional, in their final, violent turning against the straight world. One suspects that telepathic characters are artist-figures to De Palma, that conceivably, in his dealings with Hollywood producers, he has wished on occasion he had psychokinetic powers. Be that as it may, The Fury can be enjoyed, by those prepared for some colorful blood spillage when the kids get riled, simply as an engrossing thriller...
...Monty Python skits. In America, Kipling's credit lines followed those of Gary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Gunga Din, Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell in Kim, Sean Connery and Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King and, of course, Sabu, star of Hollywood's The Jungle Book...
...sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon run by a soldier of fortune named David Lindell (coauthor of Roland). Lindell held Zevon's wages in escrow, in case of either dire need or sudden good fortune. Jackson Browne, who had got friendly with Zevon back in Hollywood, wrote him in care of the Dubliner Bar inviting him to return stateside and cut a record. Warren blew the escrow account to get halfway home; a gig in London with the Everly Brothers provided the final funding...