Word: bashing
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...Hollywood to be functional, it needs to have a power axis-at any given moment, there has to be an "it boy" or "it girl" to either praise or bash. It's crucial that Tinseltown have a "buzz" person of the month; everyone has to feel like they're responsible for creating and destroying stars. That way, no one can get too big an ego, no one can get too far ahead, no one can turn the power axis into a power black hole. There's only one exception to this general rule. When there's a presidential election, Hollywood...
...then Gore does the unthinkable. He selects a running mate who-gasp-hates Hollywood. Within days, Joe Lieberman starts wailing about "cultural pollution," so Tinseltown momentarily loses its bearings again. After all, they can't bash Bush if Gore's bashing them. What...
Hollywood isn't particularly creative these days, so the thought process went something like this: "Well if we were about to bash Liz Hurley and then we started to bash Bush but now Gore's bashing us, well, then, we should...bash Liz Hurley!" Hurley violated the union strike four months ago and thought she had cleanly gotten away with it, but now all of a sudden she's paying the price. Twenty-four entertainment wire articles on Liz in the last four days (compared to two on Campaign 2000)! At the recent premiere for Bedazzled, she was pelted with...
...interaction with the audience that makes the play so engaging. They walk in at the beginning shaking hands, kissing babies, trying to win over the audience to their side, although it is the referee who judges them. Throughout the show they directly appeal to the audience as they bash the other's character or tell a secret...
...like taking a day off of work, and then getting paid to go to the company picnic," council secretary John F. Bash '03 said...