Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with old chums like Socialite Betsy Bloomingdale in more citified surroundings. Last week Nancy got a chance to sample the glitzy social whirl of Beverly Hills when the Reagans came down off the mountain for a three-day sojourn in lotus land. They hobnobbed at dinner parties with old Hollywood cronies like Jimmy Stewart, and ate chicken with three of their children (Maureen was in Sacramento) in a $3,000a-night presidential suite at the Century Plaza Hotel. The First Couple then returned to the 688-acre ranch for another lazy week. By the time the Reagans climb aboard...
...Last year, aided by finishing third in the Baja 1,000, he won the off-road racing Rookie of the Year title. And next week Gable will enter the Frontier 500 in Las Vegas, looking for his first win. He has no ambitions to try his luck in the Hollywood fast lane, but is something of a film buff, listing among his favorites such Gable flicks as Test Pilot, The Misfits and San Francisco. "They just don't make them like they used to," he says. "They were classics...
...fateful day when this movie-mad child got close to his Hollywood dream came in the summer of 1965, when 17-year-old Steven, visiting his cousins in Canoga Park, took the studio tour of Universal Pictures. "The tram wasn't stopping at the sound stages," Steven says. "So during a bathroom break I snuck away and wandered over there, just watching. I met a man who asked what I was doing, and I told him my story. Instead of calling the guards to throw me off the lot, he talked with me for about an hour. His name...
...arrives in the morning.' " Irving then surprised Spielberg, who was in India scouting locations for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, by meeting him at the airport. Says she: "From that moment, I knew. Now we're really in love. And here I am with the Prince of Hollywood. I guess that makes me the Princess...
Undoubtedly, tens of millions of moviegoers hope the filmmaker stays the precocious little boy he seems to be. Only the Hollywood graybeards and a flank of film critics feel like shouting, "Steven, grow up!" Whichever path he chooses, there are dangers. Walt Disney kept recycling the magic of his animated fables until the gold turned into dross. Charlie Chaplin got serious + and lost his audience. Spielberg, who says, "I want people to love my movies, and I'll be a whore to get them into the theaters," means to have it both ways: to mature as an artist while retaining...