Word: tinseltown
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...posh salons of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, the hors d'oeuvres are being passed around with tidbits of the spiciest scandal to hit Tinseltown in a long time. The titillating topic: the double life of the late multimillionaire Alfred Bloomingdale. His paramour of twelve years, Vicki Morgan, 30, is suing his estate for lifetime support of at least $5 million. His socialite wife Betsy claims that Morgan was paid for sexual services and is entitled to nothing more. Says Los Angeles Times Society Editor Jody Jacobs: "It's caused a real stir...
...multitudinous winners made Sunday night's endless Emmy Awards show even longer by thanking everyone except passersby. But they omitted gratitude to two raffish institutions that have boosted nearly every career in Tinseltown: the entertainment industry's West Coast-based daily newspapers, Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Vaunting oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent...
Ready or not, Hollywood is greasing the way for another John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Newcomers Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield, both 22, have been cast in a sequel to the $181 million blockbuster musical Grease. With familiar Tinseltown inventiveness, the new film has been titled Grease 2. More than 500 actors competed for the leads. "There were so many talented people that it became just looks and chemistry," concedes Pfeiffer, a looker. Caulfield, an Englishman who is married to Actress Juliet Mills, 40, feels the musical "will be as good as if not better than the original." Says...
...spirit in which he speaks-realistic, humorous, but with feeling-is precisely what claims one's respect for On Golden Pond. When it sometimes seems the whole society has spiritually decamped for Tinseltown, the movie offers the hope that people can come home again-at least for a visit...
...insults, come-ons and general greetings. Along the sidewalk-the famous chocolate terrazzo sidewalk embedded with bronze-edged stars framing the names of superstars-gang members defiantly stake out their turf. There are police on horseback, on motorcycles, on foot, in plainclothes. Knots of bewildered tourists, looking for Tinseltown, realize they have wandered into a weekend war zone...