Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Still, it wasn't Farrakhan who got you down Monday night, or the gang of preliminary speakers railing against the Jewish domination of Hollywood and the international Jewish conspiracy. It wasn't the savage courtesies of the people who checked the audience for weapons; all 25,000 were frisked individually. It wasn't the uniforms of the Fruit of Islam guards, men in deep blue caps and suits, looking like parodies of club-car porters, or the female guards surrounding Farrakhan as he spoke, wearing white kepis and robes that looked like doormen's coats. Nothing that occurred on stage...
...ability to flesh out a character in a few deft strokes has made him one of Hollywood's most versatile leading men. But as his paintings attest, Gene Hackman, 55, enjoys working on canvas almost as much as on celluloid. During the 1950s the actor first took up the brush as an art student fresh out of the Marines and resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show...
...assumed his stepfather's surname, Fitzgerald. After that, his boyhood was so normal and wholesome that one of his high school chums was later to recall, "It looked like apple pie and ice cream to me." Roy saw wartime service as a Navy airplane mechanic, then headed west to Hollywood. He had once seen Jon Hall swim across a lagoon in John Ford's South Sea romance The Hurricane, and, as he later told it, said to himself, "I can do that...
Hudson was still hiding as recently as 1980. "Look, I know lots of gays in Hollywood, and most of them are nice guys," he told the London Daily Mirror, which was indelicate enough to ask if he was homosexual. "Some have tried it on with me, but I've said, 'Come on, now. You've got the wrong guy.' " In fact, he had a longtime male lover, and he made no secret of his homosexuality to the show-business friends whose discretion he knew he could count on. His secret became public in July, when he flew to Paris hoping...
...disease took its inevitable course. Hudson was too ill to appear at a Hollywood AIDS benefit on Sept. 19, which raised $1 million. Such an outpouring of money would not have come about had it not been for Hudson's illness. Nor, without the subsequent publicity, is it likely that both houses of Congress would have moved last week toward vastly increasing the appropriations for AIDS research. From his misfortune good fortune may have sprung. His friend and Giant co-star Elizabeth Taylor wrote perhaps the most eloquent epitaph: "Please God, he has not died in vain...