Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey evening shirt and black evening slippers, a hush settled over the elegant living room. Johnson greeted the diners, who included Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Designer Mollie Parnis, Playwright Marc Connelly, ex-White House Aide Jack Valenti (now the $125,000-a-year president of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association). Soon Johnson fell into conversation with Williams and two other guests. He reminisced for a bit about the Old West and Artist Frederic Remington, one of his favorites. Then he spoke of the vast relief he would feel when he turned his office, with...
Paramount began shooting Holly Golightly party scenes on its Hollywood lot last week. Capote still threatens to get even with ABC. He is now toying with "three or four new television story ideas, one really amusing," and all of them, he says, will go to some rival network...
Divorced. Audrey Hepburn, 39, Hollywood's eternal princess (Roman Holiday, War and Peace); and Mel Ferrer, 51, its brooding prince (Knights of the Round Table, War and Peace), who married Audrey after they appeared together in a Broadway production of Ondine (she as a water sprite, he as knight-errant); on grounds of incompatibility; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Merges, Switzerland...
...make provisions for the failure of thought. In fact, the System positively thwarts thought. As long as everyone complies to a minimal degree, everything works fine. But it's dangerous to surrender your entire mind to the System. If we had, we might have had to go to Hollywood, or transfer to Yale...
...have made little musical progress since that Curtis Lemay extravaganza. His To St. Cecilia was an exciting grotesque written in his consummately banal idiom featuring vapid stentorian outbursts for a brass ensemble and Victory at Sea-type arching melodies for the hapless chorus. This clangorous work, sounding like Hollywood with the rough edges knocked of, brilliantly captured a certain Pliestoceme ambience which would have been beyond the grasp of a lesser composer. The character of the performance was captured in the Dryden line "What passion cannot Music raise of quell," the answer to which was of course "None...