Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manage to ruin movies, especially independent movies. Independent movies are difficult for the reviewer because, as a general rule, they don't have stars, their subjects are not always well-focused, and they can appear self-centered because they are often not intended to appeal to mass audiences, as Hollywood movies...
Even the flicks this week may be outdone by a television movie, The Storyteller. Airing Monday at 9 p.m. on channel 4, the made-for-T.V. flick stars Martin Balsam as a Hollywood scriptwriter who struggles with guilt after his film about arson prompts a 12-year-old boy to set a fire where he dies of smoke inhalation. It may not be Crime and Punishment, but it sounds better than the usual television fare...
...puns and gritty street lingo that characterize his verse. "It's cold out there/ colder than a ticket taker's smile/ at the Ivar Theater, on a Saturday night," he chants in a voice that sounds like a bad exhaust. The Ivar Theater is a two-bit Hollywood burlesque house where he has spent more than a few evenings...
Richard Dreyfuss commands top roles, top billing and top dollar in Hollywood, but it has always been hard to accept him as a top movie actor. Though his brash energy holds the screen, Dreyfuss has built most of his characters from a single emotion-an intense comic anguish. At his best-in American Graffiti, Duddy Kravitz and Close Encounters-he can be ruefully witty and vulnerable. His jittery neuroticism keeps an audience guessing whether he might really fall apart. But there is also a persistent feeling that he is hiding behind a pat routine. When Dreyfuss portrays the same boyish...
...apparent exception is pornography. Though adult entertainment areas have spread from Times Square and Hollywood Boulevard to even small towns across the nation, people dislike them. Fully 64% said that pornographic movies are morally wrong, and 59% said the same for advertisements promoting X-rated films. No less than 74% supported the view that "the Government should crack down more on pornography in movies, books and nightclubs." Of these 54% said they felt this strongly. When a similar question was asked in 1974, only 42% favored a Government crackdown...