Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City last week. "I think Last Tango went to his head. He has become an egomaniac, a very sick man." Bertolucci, biting his knuckles in his Rome apartment, charged Grimaldi with censorship and, half seriously, with putting "a kind of curse on me-a macumba." In Hollywood a top film executive suggested that after the succès de scandale of Last Tango, the big studios probably invested in Bertolucci without scrutinizing his plans. (In addition to Paramount's U.S. investment, United Artists and 20th Century Fox have bought various foreign rights.) "It's a mess," said...
Robert C. Heling Hollywood...
Puzzled Feminists. If that command holds, there may be quite a few people of both sexes assigned to perdition. In test screenings in New York and Hollywood, reaction has been mixed and occasionally angry. "So far," says Executive Producer Stephanie Sills, "the strongest negative reaction has come from a group of male executives. They didn't mind being portrayed by women. It was simply that they detest the way we depicted them." But the most puzzled reaction, adds Sills, has come from feminists. "They don't know whether to cheer or boo. They're confused and want...
...Town. But the music social scene is relatively unsophisticated. Close friends are welcome at Ringo's rented Hollywood Hills house between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m., but things of significance are never discussed. "Rock performers don't talk to artists or economists," says Rock Entrepreneur Dave Geffen. "As a group, they are a collection of narcissists in desperate need of a catalyst. A rock performer goes to a friend's house to smoke dope. They listen to each other's music and feel special. The guy goes home telling himself he's had a night...
When they got where they were not supposed to be, "they had to storm the fortresses" for many of their weapons, Nelson says. He adds that the bravery "was the kind you can only visualize in the Hollywood movies." Hitler sent German tank and aircraft divisions which technologically outdistanced the republican forces, enabling the fascists to bomb Guernica, Madrid and other large population centers in republican control...