Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those hilarious days of yore. Such a view is perhaps forgiveable in musicals and comedies, but even serious movies such as "Buddy Holly" and more recently September 30, 1955 fall prey to this distillation process. September 30, 1955 is without a doubt the worst example of this trend. It is also one of the worst movies, regardless of its theme, to come out in the last year. In this movie, James Bridges (director of "Paper Chase") takes a look at the day James Dean died in order to explore the cult that grew up around him. It is a fascinating...
...history, as a route to power in the same sense that Harvard has. This is not surprising. Neither have Smith or Wellesley. Although some maverick women graduating from these institutions have become leaders, they have been far outnumbered by their classmates who became educated homemakers. With the general trend in the '70s shifting to more equal access to power, money and prestige for women, their access to education has widened considerably; hence the move toward equal access at Harvard, and the move to accept women at other previously all-male Ivy League schools...
Most Predictable TV Trend: in the wake of the National Lampoon's Animal House, all three networks have announced frat-house sitcoms to premiere in early...
Says Paramount's Diller, whose company had more hits than any other: "If you apply 1978's trend to next year, you're going to fail. I believe in going against everything, and I think audiences will want to be challenged, provoked and moved." Maybe so. But producers who agree might bear in mind that the hit of 1977, Star Wars, was revived in 1978 and for two months made everybody else look sick at the box office. (Long since the movie earner of all time, it has now grossed $267 million worldwide.) Why? Apparently because...
...Days that Shook the World. One of the most sensational biographies of all involves Joan Crawford's daughter Christina, even now beavering away on a screenplay version of her best-selling assault on Joan, with Anne Bancroft tentatively booked to play Bad Mama. Broadway has not escaped the trend, and there are plans for plays based on the lives of Dorothy Parker, United Mine Workers Czar John L. Lewis, Singer Josephine Baker and Marie Dressier, a star...