Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter how laughable, these stereotypes, too, reflect a troubled reality. The hippie scene and the identity crisis will no doubt someday assume an air of innocence and cherished worth along with the Front Porch, the Soda Fountain and the Family, which now warm the nostalgia of late-night retrospection. Hollywood, which liked to see itself as Everyman's Scheherazade, has also been his Cassandra-the two roles are inseparable...
Divorced. Nancy Kwan, 29, won-ton-sized (34-21-34) Eurasian beauty who starred in Hollywood's The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and Austrian Hotel Owner Peter Pock, 28; after six years of marriage, one child; in Innsbruck...
Died. Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, baseball's turn-of-the-century Hall of Fame outfielder who set slugging records in the difficult days of Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and the dead ball; of a stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home...
...predicted a transvestite at the end of La Dolce Vita, "the entire world will be homosexual." Looking at some recent American films, the moviegoer might be inclined to believe that the prognosis is already coming true. Hollywood has suddenly discovered homosexuality, and the "third sex" is making a determined bid for first place at the box office...
...movies as the custard pie. Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend in 1945, he deleted all the book's references...