Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some CAST members say that there is a dearth of roles for Black actors in campus productions, citing a problem which many minority actors face in Hollywood. Unless the script specifically calls for Black characters--like Shakespeare's Othello or Alex Haley's Roots--Blacks usually aren't cast into plays. That's why Black CAST was created in the 1960s, says Sams, who calls the organization an "alternative drama experience...
...Hollywood came to Harvard yesterday as actress and model Bo Derek dropped by on a family friend in Elliot House and visited a Harvard law professor...
...Byrne sent out cards of his own about his career, the messages might go something like this: "Heads bust out -- six of our ten albums go gold"; "Heads albums make the Top 20 (Remain in Light to No. 19, Speaking in Tongues to No. 15)"; "Hi everybody. Gone to Hollywood. Love, David...
...with an amalgam of public relations, real estate smarts and philanthropy, she became the lodestar of the Catskills. Politicians came to the place they called the "G" to court the Jewish vote, athletes to use the growing facilities, entertainers to try out new routines en route to Broadway or Hollywood...
...sounds like vintage Hollywood. Driven from the university by Italy's Fascists just before World War II, a brilliant young Jewish biologist persists in her pioneering research into the nervous system, using makeshift equipment in a farmhouse bedroom. Food is so scarce that after experimenting on chicken embryos, she whips the leftover yolks into omelets. But she perseveres. Invited to work in the U.S. after the war, she meets a young biochemist, and together they launch a new field that promises hope for everything from cancer to burns...