Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood has long been skillful in turning good books into bad movies, but Is Paris Burning is an unfortunate perversion of that well-worn theme--it takes a pretentious chunk of bad journalism and turns it into an even worse film. One is nearly awestruck at the achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade...
Most Imitated. Success was no surprise to her then. She had been planning on it from the age of twelve. As Betty Perske, she announced to a classmate in New York, "I am going to Hollywood." Her high school yearbook lyrically cited her ambitions: "Popular ways that win/ May your dreams of becoming an actress/ Overflow the brim...
...late '40s, Bogie and Baby became Hollywood's most imitated couple. Men held their cigarettes with all four fingers, Bogie-style; women made their voices husky. In 1956, Bogart's persistent illness was diagnosed as cancer, but Bacall resolutely kept on entertaining all their old friends, rarely left the house. "She's my wife, and nurse," Bogie said shortly before his death. "So she stays home. Maybe that's the way you tell the ladies from the broads in this town...
...World War II. Tiger tanks and infantry spat destruction against the Allied invaders, thrusting them back through the Ardennes forest along a lightly guarded 85-mile front to gouge out a bleeding chunk of Luxembourg, France and eastern Belgium. What happened at the Bulge? According to a trio of Hollywood script writers, the Allies were caught flat-footed because nobody would listen to Henry Fonda...
Married. Arlene Dahl, 38, still-flaming Hollywood redhead (Kisses for My President), now author of a beauty column; and Alexis Lichine, 52, U.S. wine importer; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in St. James, Barbados...