{"id":52434,"date":"2020-10-19T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52434"},"modified":"2021-03-13T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T21:55:23","slug":"hollywood-boulevard-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52434","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Boulevard (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;This is Hollywood &#8212; we change everything; we have to.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster-665x1024.png 665w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster-175x270.png 175w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Poster.png 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aspiring starlet (Candice Rialson) hoping to make it big in Hollywood signs on with a hard-working agent (Dick Miller) and is soon working for a pretentious director (Paul Bartel) whose leading lady (Mary Woronov) detests her competition, and whose other actresses are mysteriously being killed off, one by one.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aspiring Stars<\/li>\n<li>Dick Miller Films<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>Joe Dante Films<\/li>\n<li>Movie Directors<\/li>\n<li>Satires and Spoofs<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that the &#8220;main claim to fame&#8221; of this &#8220;self-parody&#8221; is &#8220;that it was made in record-breaking time on a pocket-change budget&#8221; by &#8220;Joe Dante and Alan Arkush, New World editors&#8221; who &#8220;wanted to prove to studio head Roger Corman that they could effectively direct quickie sexploitation films in the Corman mold&#8221;. He notes that &#8220;Patrick Hobby&#8217;s script is inventive and funny&#8221;, with &#8220;a barrage of surprisingly clever sight gags and references to Corman&#8217;s style of filmmaking; and the entire cast hams it up to perfection.&#8221; He points out that &#8220;Paul Bartel is hilarious as a director who tries to inject &#8216;art&#8217;, &#8216;meaning&#8217;, and character motivation into his trashy films &#8212; while maintaining a large quantity of T&#038;A, car crashes, and massacre scenes&#8221; &#8212; but I&#8217;m more fond of Woronov, who has delicious fun skewering her own image as a &#8220;big-name&#8221; cult star. Peary argues that the &#8220;film falters toward [the] end, when it gets a bit too serious and includes a needlessly vicious knife murder&#8221;, but writes that &#8220;surprisingly, the film&#8221; &#8212; which incorporates &#8220;inserted footage from previous Corman productions&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;looks polished.&#8221; I&#8217;m essentially in agreement with Peary&#8217;s assessment, though I don&#8217;t think modern film fanatics need to see this one unless it piques their interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Woronov as Mary McQueen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Wornov.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Wornov.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Wornov.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Wornov-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Wornov-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Wornov-554x270.png 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A shameless skewering of &#8220;quickie&#8221; exploitation movies<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Quickie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Quickie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Quickie.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Quickie-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Quickie-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Quickie-554x270.png 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Good use of L.A. locales<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Sets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Sets.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Sets.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Sets-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Sets-128x62.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hollywood-Boulevard-Sets-554x270.png 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a one-time look. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074633\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1115\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/film.avclub.com\/hollywood-boulevard-1798197241\">Onion A.V. Club Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/movies\/hollywood-boulevard\/review\/101090\/\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/hollywood-boulevard\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is Hollywood &#8212; we change everything; we have to.&#8221; Synopsis: An aspiring starlet (Candice Rialson) hoping to make it big in Hollywood signs on with a hard-working agent (Dick Miller) and is soon working for a pretentious director (Paul Bartel) whose leading lady (Mary Woronov) detests her competition, and whose other actresses are mysteriously being killed off, one by one. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Aspiring Stars Dick Miller Films Hollywood Joe Dante Films Movie Directors Satires and Spoofs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=52434\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52434"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60413,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52434\/revisions\/60413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}