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There have always been film biographies, of course. Al Jolson's story was done twice while he was still alive, and there have been movies about famous folk like Madame Curie and Benjamin Disraeli. But the voracious appetite for real subjects, particularly on TV, is new, and so is the tendency to tell all without waiting until what was once considered a decent interval has elapsed. "It has to do with people's fascination with public figures," reasons William McCutchen, producer of ABC's Eisenhower TV-movie. "Despite all the tremendously creative ideas that come...
...weekends, downtown Los Angeles' Broadway is a teeming mass of Hispanic shoppers. Record-store loudspeakers blare Mexican hits: Juro que Nunca Volveré (I Swear I'll Never Return), Mi Fracaso (My Downfall). The Orpheum Theater, where Al Jolson once sang in blackface, screens Spanish-language dubbings of anglo hits. An archipelago of taco and burrito carts dots the street. Stores and merchandise stands tout their wares: vestidos, tocadiscos, muebles (clothing, phonographs, furniture). Farther east, on Whittier Boulevard, young Hispanics express themselves with a unique form of Saturday night fever known as "low riding"-cruising in ornately decorated...
...coaster of merriment, with hairpin turns of plot, zany swoops of emotion and a breakneck tempo. But for fanciers of substance in entertainment, soap bubbles would be solider. Kaufman and Hart twisted their comic vise on Hollywood at just the time the movie colony was panicking over emergent speech. Jolson had sung; could Shakespeare be far behind? In panic, Hollywood raided Broadway for its voices...