Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also such other threatened species as snake charmers and belly dancers. Tampa, with good beaches and reasonable prices, is a fine base for a vacation that might also include visits to Orlando's attractive Sea World, Circus World and a waxworks museum, the Stars Hall of Fame, featuring Hollywood greats...
...forest searches: Sandy and Little Red. The other nine were still in training. Consequently the FBI brought in its own pack of bloodhounds. But when the feds gave their dogs some convicts' garments to sniff, just like they do in the movies, the locals scoffed. "Pure Hollywood," said one. Chapman put his dogs in pursuit by taking them to a single fresh track that gave them the scent they followed through the woods...
...decorated, laid-back "environment." There are also The Foxhunt and The Casbah. For the older, squarer set, there is Burl's Joint, the focal point of a new restaurant opened in May by Burt Reynolds. Inside the huge Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra's All the Way and the theme from Rocky alternating with hard rock. Clientele: unchic...
...singers, boosted by the burgeoning record industry, become stars. Jimmy drifts disconsolately into jazz gigs in Harlem, while Francine heads for the top of the charts and Hollywood. Their marriage cannot survive. Jimmy splits on the day Francine bears their child...
...show's creators were cashing in on the public's fascination with theatrical life, and with the disparity between onstage glamour and backstage heartache. The musical portrayal of stage life would, with the immediate advent of sound movies, be taken up in a host of Hollywood films such as The Singing Fool, Show of Shows, Hollywood Revue, Footlight Parade, Forty-Second Street, the Broadway Melody series, and the Gold Diggers series...