Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood, that chimerical land of sudden riches and happy endings, is being rocked by protests about sordid abuses in the real world. A number of stars, directors and independent producers, who had kept their mouths shut in the past for fear of jeopardizing their careers, are speaking out against the fast shuffles dealt them over the years by the studios...
...Though Begelman admitted embezzling more than $60,000 from Columbia and signing at least three checks with fake signatures, including that of Actor Cliff Robertson, he was returned practically unpunished to his $400,000 post. His reinstatement, which was seen as a symbol of the arrogant power wielded by Hollywood's kingmakers, became too much to stomach even for many veterans of the cynical film community...
...from the brink of bankruptcy and turned it into a moneymaker that its directors last December decided to reinstate him. A vocal dissenter had been Alan Hirschfield, president of Columbia's parent, Columbia Pictures Industries; the two men seemed formally reconciled last week, and Hirschfield spent the week in Hollywood talking with Begelman about future plans. But the Columbia directors were scheduled to meet again this week, and there was speculation that they might reconsider their decision, particularly since Columbia stock has fallen to 15% from 20% in December, before the affair burst into the open...
...Begelman affair, however, has prompted many stars and agents to make their own verbal indictments of practices in the $3.2 billion-a-year film industry. Said Hollywood Lawyer Ronald Litz: "The custom in Hollywood is that you get away with as much as you can until you're caught." Litz won a $225,000 settlement from Columbia for Robert Redford and Director Sydney Pollack, who contended they had been denied their fair share of the profit from The Way We Were...
DIED. Tim McCoy, 86, real-life cowboy who became one of Hollywood's best-known western heroes (War Paint, Winners of the Wilderness, Ghost Town Law); in Nogales, Ariz. A rancher and amateur historian who knew the neighboring Indians well, McCoy was named Wyoming's Indian commissioner in 1920, after serving as a cavalry instructor and a colonel in the artillery in World War I. He helped hire 500 Indians for the film The Covered Wagon in 1922, then went to Hollywood and became the good-guy star of 200 or so films and numerous touring "Wild West...