Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy type of musicals are nauseating. You have probably seen those 40-year-old Hollywood bombs on television, with their foolish plots, childish dialogue and overdose of song and dance, tap-tap-tap. They always feature a pretty (though never sexy) heroine and her smiling, good-natured boyfriend caught in some "terrible...
...resemble Dudley Do-Rights more than Ranger Ricks, arrive at Little Mary Sunshine's vacation home in search of the wild Indian Yellow Feather. Of the 17 characters, 14 are romantically involved and the other three are Indians, who are not supposed to have such emotions in 1940-type Hollywood shows...
...producers are concerned, No. 1 Angel Farrah Fawcett-Majors is turning into a devil. Buoyed by the record-breaking sales of Farrah posters and 40 or so movie offers, the Charlie's Angels star has decided to quit the hit ABC series. The Hollywood line has it that she is playing games to raise her salary from $5,000 per episode to as much as $75,000. The word from the Fawcett-Majors household, however, is that the actress has simply done some basic arithmetic. Since Farrah's 5 million poster fans alone would probably...
Hemingway and Hollywood have never been a very good match. The moviemakers have tended to play up Papa's most blatant streaks in mawkish romances (A Farewell to Arms), pseudo-profound he-man heroics (For Whom the Bell Tolls) and farragoes of exotic drinks, sports and angst (The Sun Also Rises). The Hemingway adaptation with the most spark left in it today is To Have and Have Not, in which Director Howard Hawks tossed out most of the original novel and wrenched the rest into a racy adventure yarn around Bogart and Bacall...
...beat. At first there were problems--in Denver those who came to listen asked for their money back. But in Oakland, California, in late summer, the right audience came. They wanted that beat. They got it and loved it and the band moved on to its big break, playing Hollywood's Palomar Ballroom in a series of concerts broadcast by radio across the country...