Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spurned by the film community and accepted by voters precisely because he seemed so un-Hollywood. Washington has yet to harness Hollywood for its ability to create modern myths and tap into the national zeitgeist. When that happens, the connection between the two cities will be more real than celluloid...
...Hollywood nothing lasts long -- except the work. Lynch has earned his 15 minutes of celebrity with 15 years of the strangest characters and most hallucinogenic images an American filmmaker ever committed to celluloid. His early career traced a paradigmatic arc of hotshot movie eminence, from a $20,000 underground classic (Eraserhead in 1977) to a $5 million Oscar nominee (The Elephant Man in 1980) to a $50 million sci-fi dud (Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director...
...days, but Scott Turow seems to have defied the odds. When not in his plush office in a major Chicago law firm, he works at home on his MacIntosh computer, writing bestselling books. His first novel, Presumed Innocent, was so popular on paper that its story was transferred to celluloid, and became one of this month's top grossing feature films...
...before, Bradbury is at his best when he grants real people and actual events the quality of hallucinations. After all, who needs special effects when he can recall Celluloid City at a time when a young writer could get "mulched in among the ravening crowd, waving pads and pens, rushing about at premiere nights under the klieg lights or pursuing Marlene Dietrich into her hairdresser's or running after Cary Grant at the Friday-night Legion Stadium boxing matches, waiting outside restaurants for Jean Harlow to have one more three-hour lunch or Claudette Colbert to come laughing...
...belong to Luba, a sensuous young actress with her own hidden background of European tragedy. She triggers memories of his murdered family. Dennison holds them back for 18 chapters while he deals with his ex-wife, his anti-Semitic father-in-law, his estranged daughter, and a series of Celluloid City sharks circling the swimming pool until the denouement...