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Word: hollywoodized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert De Niro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: De Niro: The Phantom of the Cinema | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

They also have a brownstone in New York's Greenwich Village. In both cities De Niro knows all the joints that are off the map, small Italian restaurants and bars where he orders Black Russians. Several of his friends are people who have come to prominence in Hollywood in the past few years: Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Barry Primus. De Niro is a superior stunt man (pratfall division), and he can put anyone away with a moment of devastating mimicry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: De Niro: The Phantom of the Cinema | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...legal probes were not giving Bluhdorn enough headaches, G & W, which has several operating companies, ranging from Paramount Pictures in Hollywood to New Jersey Zinc Inc., has a heartache with its earnings. While operating revenues for the first three quarters of fiscal year 1977 are up 7.2%, net income is down 11 % because of depressed prices for sugar and paper, two big G&W divisions. The company's enormous long-term debt of $1.1 billion must be serviced, at high cost. A sizable investment portfolio that includes stakes in such companies as Simmons (mattresses), Wurlitzer (juke boxes), Amfac (sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Died. Prince Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, 77, cousin of Egypt's late King Farouk; in Paris. A man about town in Los Angeles and New York City during the Prohibition Era, the prince associated with sportsmen and Hollywood luminaries. A yachtsman, he became a designer of sailing ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1977 | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...permanent retired British residents," coexist amiably with most of the natives-but not so well with each other. Tusker's irascibility has been honed by questionable health and the approach of his 71st birthday. Lucy, whose chief diversion in recent years has been local showings of Hollywood movies, has begun to feel that life with Tusker is not going to get much better. In approved silver-screen manner, she utters dramatic monologues to empty rooms: "Tusker and I do not truly communicate with one another any more... I can't hear what he is thinking and he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comic Coda to a Song of India | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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