Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...planes were all part of the famous collection put together by Hollywood Stunt Flyers Frank Tallman and the late Paul Mantz. The auction, conducted by Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, was the first one of its kind, and it marked the coming of age of the helmet-and-goggles old-plane buffs, who readily admit that their mania for flying old crates amounts to "downright sickness." Explains Seattle Lawyer Richard Martinez: "It's a sort of nostalgia. You build yourself a replica of a triplane Fokker, and there you are, Baron von Richthofen...
...been seen in TV's Lassie as well as many pictures, went the special Craven Award. This does not mean that Punkin was a craven raven; the prize, which goes to supporting players, honors the late Richard C. Craven, who was the American Humane Association's first Hollywood director. First prizewinner in films was Ben, the bear actor in the movie Gentle Giant...
Cocktail Tapings. Now syndicated five half-hours a week in 83 cities, Girl Talk draws an average audience of 2,000,000, ranging from a Hollywood scriptwriter who listens for the flavor of women's dialogue, to, on at least one occasion, Lyndon Johnson. Most of the viewers, though, are women and of an age that leads Virginia to privately retitle her program "The Menopausal Romper Room...
...Step, Out of Date. Baldwin manages his set pieces well: a Harlem church service, the white world's Hollywood movies as seen through black eyes, a ghetto tenement flat on Saturday night. But the heterosexual love scenes are dry, joyless and dread-inducing, while some of the writing plays with trite truisms ("If you are depending on a guy for your life, you don't really much care what color he is"). The penultimate scene, in which the Negro star plays host to Barbara's white old-Kentucky-home family, seems to have been lifted...