Word: screenstruck
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...partly with his share of the family wealth, all bomb; he returns, chastened, to the place being held for him in the family firm. There he unexpectedly shows a fair executive talent and succeeds in keeping an already giant company growing, largely by diversifying beyond whiskeymaking. But he remains screenstruck, and as he approaches his 39th birthday next week, makes a second run at the glitter world -- this time by launching, in alliance with some of the top names in Hollywood, a titanic battle to take over the world's biggest media and entertainment company...
Dead Serious. Clearly Mailer has been screenstruck for years, and he maintains that "films speak to a deeper level of the unconscious than writing." But his immediate plans are to write a new novel -and high time too. Just possibly he is a little weary of moviemaking. His first picture effort, Wild 90 (an hour and a half with three hoods on the lam), was hardly seen, while his second, Beyond the Law, received only limited distribution despite its director's claim that it is "one of the best pictures ever made about cops and crooks." Perhaps the most...
...contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy sister Nellie (Patsy Kelly...
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