Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brings Tears. Carter has not entirely done away with the usual White House practice of reaching to Hollywood or Broadway for entertainment at black-tie evenings, but he has managed to import classical stars like Pianist Rudolf Serkin, who played at the state dinner for Mexican President Lopez Portillo, and the Juilliard String Quartet, which played during Inaugural festivities in the East Room. After the guests had departed. Carter apologized to the quartet for not being able to give his full attention to the music and asked if they would perform an encore. Following a stirring rendition of a movement...
Even in such a sybaritic place as Hollywood, where reality so often surpasses make-believe, Director Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) ranks as a startling character. He was the husband of Manson Murder Victim Sharon Tate, and his life has had elements as dark and quixotic as his art. He is now working on a movie version of The First Deadly Sin, which portrays a business executive obsessed with sexual perversion and homicide. Thus it was hardly theater of the absurd that Polanski, 43, should find himself arrested in the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and accused...
Guilty or not, the Polanski contretemps reveals much about the cocaine-snorting, "anything goes" sexuality of "the new Hollywood." While the movie community has largely kept silent, Polanski's boss at Columbia Pictures admits they have a "mess" on their hands. "Roman's got such a bad reputation for being a pervert film maker," laments Columbia Production Executive Bill Tennant, "he's going to be judged guilty by his work...
Polanski, whose reputation for dating teen-age girls is well known in Hollywood, seemed remarkably unchastened by the impending legal action that could ruin his American career. Three days after his arrest he appeared at a fashionable restaurant accompanied by a girl who looked not a great deal older than the age of consent...
...title is not too catchy and Cabot Living Room is an obscure corner in the world of Harvard theater. The Bible claims, "Revenge is mine, thus saith the Lord." For all of us who are faced with a rainy Saturday afternoon choice between "The Wild Kingdom" and old Hollywood re-runs, the South House Drama Society's satire is a divine favor...