Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...grandson of Los Angeles-based antique dealers, Graber, 61, got his start in decorating as a partner of the late William Haines, a favorite of West Coast movie folk known for a kind of Hollywood flamboyance. By contrast, says top New York Designer Mario Buatta, Graber's work shows "more a traditional mixture of today and yesterday; his is definitely not a movie star look...
Rona Barrett, who is about to join the Today team, gives the news. Get over the idea that anything coming out of Hollywood is gossip, while anything out of Washington is hard news...
...Bernstein, Actor James Cagney, 81, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 71, and Soprano Leontyne Price, 53, in receiving a coveted Kennedy Center honor for career achievement in the performing arts. At weekend-long festivities that included a musical tribute at the Kennedy Center, star-struck Washingtonians clustered around such visiting Hollywood idols as John Travolta and Lauren Bacall. But Jimmy Carter did what he could to maintain decorum. Said he: "Cagney and I agreed we would not exchange our Jimmy impressions...
This film is running for one week in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for Academy nominations. It is the sort of ponderously aspiring twaddle that sometimes wins Oscars-especially when it presents Hollywood a chance to welcome back a suitably repentant sinner. But the once cheerfully perverse director of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ought to remember that being an artist means never having to say you're sorry...
...from the side lines. He is supported by an endless gusher of royalties and protected by his international reputation. Sadly, ironically, he watches as Western civilization slides into barbarism and banality. He is in Germany during the '30s as the Nazis twist science into racist doctrine. In postwar Hollywood he endures producers who change his King Arthur script from a heroic Christian epic to a cheap romance. Toomey is a lonely paradox: lacking an abiding spiritual faith, he can enjoy but not fully possess the material world...