Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues. "Beat's me if I can figure the story out," Chandler said. Maybe your luck will be better...
...consciously borrowed the impressionistic slice-of-life framework of Nashville and made it work with even less of a plot than Robert Altman's cinematic paradigm. Granted that the basically uncommercial quality of the format has been somewhat offset by the presence of a galaxy of New Hollywood actors; but from a strictly critical standpoint, Rudolph has effectively invited comparisons with his famous mentor that would seem to place his first major work at an almost fatal disadvantage. Yet Welcome to L.A. still manages to equal and even surpass Nashville in some respects, and facile comparisons with Altman fail...
...away for good, ending in front of the cameras and spectators at the Pru in 2:14.46. A minute or so behind, unaware that the laurel wreath in Mayor Kevin White's hands was not destined for him, Bally came charging in. One doesn't have to be a Hollywood scriptwriter to guess what was going through Bally's mind those last hundred yards: here he was, an unknown foreigner, heading for the greatest athletic triumph of his life and world-wide fame. It is hardly worthwhile to belabor the pain of his rude awakening...
...without emotion, like I would do Lady Macbeth." Her next appearance will be in Bobby Deerfield with her real-life love Al Pacino. She is also signed to play in Director Billy Wilder's movie of Thomas Tryon's bestseller Crowned Heads. Her role: Fedora, a mysterious Hollywood actress who has in her something of Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson...
Divorced. Nicol Williamson, 40, stormy star of the British stage who played Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; by Jill Townsend, 32, an American-born actress; after six years of marriage; one son; in London...