Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing at 13, so he decided to go to Hollywood and be a songwriter. He wangled a $50-a-week job with a recording studio and rented a cheap apartment, where he slept curled up in a blanket on the bare floor. When, on top of everything else, his romance with a San Bernardino coed broke up, it seemed like...
Webb spends most of his time these days in a 22-room Hollywood mansion that serves as his home, corporate headquarters, "crash pad" for friends in need, and raucous rehearsal hall for clients and colleagues. Self-possessed amidst the noise and confusion, he still manages to get to his Yamaha concert grand or his electric organ to work on new music, sometimes with incredible facility (he wrote Up, Up and Away in 35 minutes). In fact, in addition to a plethora of pop projects (including a score for an original film musical), he is branching out to tackle a rock...
Divorced. By Julie Andrews, 32, Hollywood's merry money magnet (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music): Tony Walton, 33, British set designer; on grounds of mental cruelty; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Albert Dekker, 62, seasoned character actor who appeared in more than 25 films (Two Years Before the Mast; Suddenly, Last Summer) and numerous Broadway plays (Death of a Salesman, A Man for All Seasons); by accidental strangulation; in Hollywood. An outspoken and intensely serious professional, Dekker once labeled the stage "a horrible place in which to make a living," yet continued to excel as the craggy, dark-voiced heavy whose villainy always seemed convincingly human...
...classic Hollywood thinking, the formula should be absolutely infallible: if one kid is cute, it follows that 18 kids have to be 18 times cuter. The new math of Yours, Mine and Ours proves nearly the opposite...