Word: filmdom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this autobiographical monologue, filmed by his longtime lover, filmdom's most thoughtful charmer seduces the viewer as effortlessly as he did his screen partners. The actor, who died in 1996 at 72, recalls his career with eloquence, irony and a gentle wonder. To hear him utter, with a child's reverence, the names Gary Cooper and Clark Gable is to hear a cordial peal of thunder from one Olympic peak to another. "I like people; I love life," he says. "Perhaps that is why life has loved me in return." At three hours-plus, this is the Shoah of movie...
...producers--even Ron Howard--tried to put together movies about the porn industry. Next month Orgazmo, a porn-industry spoof by South Park co-creator Trey Parker, will be released, with a sizable part for fat, hirsute porn star Ron Jeremy. Jeremy, easily the most recognizable figure in adult filmdom, exploits his fame better than anyone, branding his fat, hirsute face on cigars, beer, Porn-Star brand T shirts, and, of course, a sex toy based on his anatomy...
...James Cameron cast him in what could have been a no-impact supporting role in True Lies. Thanks in part to his sly, scene-stealing comic turn as Arnold Schwarzenegger's loud, loutish best friend, the movie was boffo in 1994 ($146 million gross). Arnold instantly became one of filmdom's most wanted second bananas--a kind of low-rent Tony Randall for the age of Beavis...
...easy to forget this elemental fact when Woody and Mia -- once filmdom's most ostentatiously reclusive couple -- took the stand at the custody trial. He wore his trademark rumpled tweed sport coat, prompting observers to wonder, Was it the same one every day, or did he own many jackets that just looked the same? She favored severe blazers and blouses buttoned all the way up. Costumes aside, both tried to give the impression that the other was unfit to be a parent. In large measure, they both succeeded...
Unanswered questions about the Kennedy assassination have nagged the nation for nearly 28 years, rousing emotions, inciting speculation, provoking arguments. It was probably inevitable that Hollywood would step into this minefield sooner or later -- and probably inevitable that the man leading the charge would be Oliver Stone, filmdom's most flamboyant interpreter of the 1960s (Platoon, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July...