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Word: hollywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many stars in such a system would be eaten by a black hole. This was no isolated case. Across the nation, in disciplines ranging from geophysics to medicine to entomology, scientists are discovering that computer images can sometimes lead to a better understanding of nature. Borrowing a leaf from Hollywood's special-effects book (and in some cases hiring Hollywood technicians), they are converting their data into video form. Because the human brain is exquisitely adept at picking up visual cues, scientists have begun benefiting from what Robert Langridge of the University of California at San Francisco calls "computer-aided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Pictures Worth A Million Bytes | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...have something to do with the fact that Ishtar features two of Hollywood's hottest stars. Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman play Lyle Rodgers and Chuck Clark, a singer-songwriting duo trying to make it in New York. Their only problem is that they are bad. Really bad. Even their agent (Jack Weston) tells them, "You're old, you're white, you have no shtick...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...clear that we are interested in much more than an evening of pleasure off of Bimini. What was Gary Hart doing with Warren Beatty back in the McGovern campaign, we ask. What about his talk of "reform marriage" and his carousals with leading members of Hollywood's den of iniquity...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: A DisHartened Country | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...years ago, America's favorite man-child was Matthew Broderick, star of WarGames in Hollywood and Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway. Today Michael J. Fox holds the peach-fuzz prize. His first big movie, Back to the Future, was the box-office champ of 1985; his sitcom, Family Ties, is now the second most viewed show in Nielsen history. These two attractive actors have confronted the "cute" factor in different ways. Broderick goes off-Broadway between film gigs and appears eager to tackle adult roles that will challenge him and his fans. Fox, though, seems to enjoy being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coping with the Cute Factor | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...this light, Extreme becomes an entertaining piece of Hollywood garbage, endearing precisely because it stinks. File it in between Plan 9 From Outer Space and Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra-Vixens and revel in the unintentional hilarity. All Extreme Prejudice lacks are extra-terrestrial vehicles that look like Chrysler hubcaps...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Macho Cheese Dip | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

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