Word: celluloidal
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...close as you're ever likely to come. He refuses to make it easy and slick and dumb. It's a love affair against all odds, and though it will certainly lose in the end, it is as good as things can get without being celluloid...
...sounds like the theme for some late-show fantasy starring yourself, the title song for a bit of vintage swank. The heroine is available but somehow indomitable, instantly recognizable but infinitely mysterious. She is constructed of several transplanted celluloid dreams and, as anyone who has turned on a radio over the past month will know right away, she has, most distinctively, Bette Davis Eyes...
...strike a deal. Farmer does buy the film, but for all his assets, and he returns home to find his enraged wife ready to kill him. This is no Mary Poppins. Furious that her husband has sunk all his assets, (half hers by California law) into a piece of celluloid, she chases him through the house. "You son of a bitch," she cries. Farmer stops, and says, "Variety headline: 'Sally Miles Swears!' Another $10 million at the box office." Edwards excels at manic scenes like these. Farmer's irrationality, portrayed to perfection by Mulligan, overcome the hopelessly commonplace performances...
Ronald Reagan stood taller in this real-life drama than in any of his celluloid screen efforts. Perhaps now we can stop associating him with Bonzo, train robbers, cattle rustlers and pretty girls...
...HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD. The land of celluloid has finally hit the big time, finally created a spectacle that will spawn sequels, and spinoffs and sell popcorn for ever. And the most fitting irony came at the conclusion of the Oscars: the award for best picture of the year went to a movie that tried to enter the world of ordinary people. The shooting of President Reagan was the horrifying result of ordinary people trying to enter the world of the movies...