Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel It. Clara Bow explained It as the ability to give your undivided attention to the person you were speaking to. That was not the definition her fans bought. To them, It was s-x, and Clara was It's embodiment. From 1927 to 1930 she was among Hollywood's top five box-office attractions. She made as many as eight pictures in a single year, commanded a salary of $5,000 a week...
...with Liberace, it was manner and clothes that made the man. Playing the 20,000-seat Hollywood Bowl in 1952, he had a set of white tails made up "so they could see me in the back row." He had a little gold lame jacket added in Las Vegas and, says Liberace, "what started as a gag became a trademark...
...declared Lauren Bacall recently, piqued at a Hollywood that excluded her from the Pepsi generation and forgot that Bogart was 25 years her senior when they married. As it turned out, she was wrong, but only by nine months. The birth certificate of Lauren Bacall, nee Betty Joan Persky, gives her date of birth as Sept. 16, 1924. As for Tony, the former Bernard Schwartz was born on June 3, 1925. Still, even an aging Lauren Bacall is younger than many of Hollywood's Beautiful People...
...years people have wondered what could replace sex as the No. 1 topic in Hollywood. All too soon they may have their answer: medicare...
...hill overlooking Hollywood, a musty, turreted old Gothic house broods amid mist and smog. The traveler who reaches the lonely relic stands damply in a small reception hall presided over by a surly owl with satanically gleaming eyes. But there is no apparent way for the new arrival to get out of the room. Then the receptionist makes a quiet suggestion: a few words, perhaps "Open sesame!", to the owl? The visitor speaks, and, lo, the innocent-looking bookcase near the bird swings open, revealing a crowded bar. The visitor is in The Magic Castle, the U.S.'s only...