Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper, Julia sounds like an exemplary American film. In sharp contrast to most current big-budget movies, it trades in serious ideas rather than comic-book fantasies, and it even has the guts to buck Hollywood's longstanding embargo on heroines by starring two strong, intelligent women who care about other things than men. Since they are played by Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, it's hard to imagine how Julia could fail -but fail, to a sad extent, it does. For all the taste, talent and money that have been lavished on this film, it is stubbornly...
...relief, brought Novelist Condon and his wife Evelyn to Ireland in 1970 (as an American, he must pay U.S. taxes even though he lives abroad). A former pressagent, Condon, 62, boasts average book sales of 1.3 million and has sold five novels (including The Manchurian Candidate) to Hollywood. Currently he is writing political novel No. 12, to be called Death of a Politician. In his salmon pink 19-room mansion in Kilkenny, Condon works on his potboilers seven hours a day, seven days a week for ten weeks at a stretch...
...smash its record. The novel, now in third printing before publication, is the October main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club; paperback rights have been purchased by Bantam Books for $1 million. The only arena in which Schoolboy has so far failed to win honors is Hollywood. Tinker, Tailor resisted adaptation; major movie producers judge the new book even harder to film. One executive recently asked his script department to provide the customary single-page synopsis, a job as hopeless as carving the Lord's Prayer on the head of a studio...
Ironically, the Hollywood Establishment that reviled her has now made her one of its spokeswomen. She presented the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award to Bette Davis earlier this year, and was one of the hosts of the Academy Awards...
MARRIED. Glenn Ford, 61, strong-jawed, soft-spoken Hollywood good guy; and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his companion for three years; he for the third time, she for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...