Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parody of Mussolini in Chaplin's The Great Dictator; of complications of an aortic aneurysm; in Los Angeles. Abandoning a Wall Street career, Oakie joined the chorus of George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922 and, after several years on the vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille Ball and Tin Pan Alley with Alice Faye. A consummate...
...downs of the past two months had been like a Hollywood movie, observed Israeli Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. Except, he added, the happy ending had come at the beginning...
...shot in the flat light one associates with porno films; its often incomprehensible plot contains more credibility gaps than a William West moreland press briefing. Though Furie staged much of the film on location in Asia, the Viet Nam he re-creates is as placid as the Hollywood he built for Gable and Lombard. Even the sting of death is absent: this may be the first war movie ever to climax with a ponderous soccer match instead of a battle...
...about her starring role in the film I Want to Hold Your Hand. "In my next role, I'd like to look a little more sophisticated, sexier, you know," says Paul Newman's daughter (by his first wife, former Actress Jacqueline Witte). Susan would like to leave Hollywood for New York, where she used to play off-off-off-Broadway. "Making movies has nothing to do with acting," she explains. She is serious about being an actress, "but I'm not sure I want to be a star the way my father is. That man is hassled...
...brassy veteran of Broadway and Hollywood, the author of five books, and she has served as a special adviser to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations-all without getting a high school diploma. "Believe me, I was a very smart cookie," says Pearl Bailey, who calls herself "more of a philosopher than an entertainer." At 59, Bailey has decided to get a college diploma, and enrolled last week at Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown University, where she plans to major in French and squeeze in classes in Islam, Egyptian art and philosophy. Drama is out, she says, because...