Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though it seems robust, Hollywood has not escaped the results of lowered expectations. The five major studios this year will each release only eleven to 17 films, about half he number each would have produced a decade ago. Money is not the problem-film budgets have doubled since 1973. George Lucas' Star Wars and soon-to-be released extravaganzas by Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have a combined price tag of more than $63 million. Unfortunately, the studios' reliance on blockbuster epics means that fewer experimental movies are being made. The state's once sassy underground press...
Police say that the two men preyed on boys and young men, some of them apparently male prostitutes, who frequented homosexual cruising areas like Selma Avenue in Hollywood and MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Says Lieut. Douglas, "We have no indication of what the motive was." Other than the fact that some of the victims, at least, were homosexuals, they appeared to have little in common...
ITEM: In West Hollywood, members of a group called the Germs try to redeem a slow evening at the Whisky by smearing themselves with peanut butter...
...prefers to see itself as egalitarian though it is much impressed by class. Buck and Jim turned their raft into a royal bedchamber for the King and the Duke, Grace Kelly got a regal send-off when she left Hollywood to become Princess to the world's finest amusement park, and the Kennedys were empurpled by the press...
...PALM COURT in New York's Plaza Hotel is a very classy place to stop for tea. Impeccably dressed waiters, who click their heels and stride with the stiff elegance of Russian officers in a Hollywood extravaganza, serve coffee in glistening silver coffeepots. Fragments of blase conversations about grand openings and charity balls and Tiffany diamonds drift above the fronds of potted palms encircling the cozy tables...