Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet, please," announced the assistant director in discreet, nicely modulated tones. Griped a nearby veteran American technician: "If we were in Hollywood, he'd be saying 'Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep...
Roughshod. To be sure, Arthur P. Jacobs is not just any Hollywood producer, either. He is the man who is filming The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting's wry children's classic about the physician who talks to animals, as a $12 million 20th Century-Fox musical extravaganza, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Tony Newley, and a cast of 1,147 other humans and 1,500 beasts. To play the featured role of Gub-Gub the pig, he will need 40 trained piglets (because they grow out of the part so fast). The fabled two-headed pushmi...
...latest manifestations of the above axiom are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Mike Nichols. And while the product should be seen as long as it exists, one can't avoid wishing that both director and property had never gone to Hollywood...
...sense all this is quibbling. For those who haven't seen or read the play, the movie affords a first look at a brilliant and, yes, revolutionary work. The dialogue and subject matter constitute a complete abortion of the Hollywood production code. And since Warner Bros. succeeded in getting a seal of approval despite obvious violations, Virginia Woolf may indicate another change in Hollywood's moral climate...
Otherwise, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? falls into familiar Hollywood traps. It comes across as a multi-collaboration lacking a strong central influence. The stage production was funnier, better-acted, and generally more important...