Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Niceness, to put it baldly, is not as popular as it used to be. Catering to more sophisticated filmgoers, Hollywood each year produced fewer and fewer movies that suited the Music Hall's strict policy of offering only films and stage shows that were suitable for family viewing. It was no great surprise that the featured film last week was a treacly Walt Disney production called Pete's Dragon...
...days, nicknaming a Dal las player consisted of calling Defensive Tackle Robert Lilly "Bob." Now the Cowboys boast "Manster" Linebacker Randy White (for each of the things he is half of) and the bookend defensive ends, Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Harvey "Too Mean" Martin. Then there is Tom "Hollywood" Henderson, who, during the offseason, dated one of the Pointer Sisters...
...MOST LOGICAL EXPLANATION for this inanity is that the movie is an act of homage to George Burns. Ever since the death of Jack Benny, Hollywood and its comedians have gone out of their way to worship Burns, his closest friend. By placing him as God in the center of a movie, Reiner may feel he is paying the ultimate tribute to this cigar-smoking, endearing little man. Too bad Reiner's religious offering did not include a good script. Great pains have obviously been taken to prevent the placid Burns from being upstaged; Reiner has chosen to cast...
...most subtle and humorous scenes comes right after the train gag. All the men entering the studio contest disembark from the train in Hollywood wearing identical white suits, and Annie gets lost within a sea of Rudy lookalikes. She examines dozens of faces, but cannot find her husband. The segment looks funnier than it sounds, but it works beatifully because it is not dragged...
That is a shame, since Wilder and Kane handle their scenes together delicately. As the Midwestern couple encountering Hollywood for the first time, they display the proper amount of naivete and wonder. Kane is convincingly sweet and supportive and when he declares his true love for her at the end of the film, Wilder does his best acting...