Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than two decades have passed since moviegoers first watched James Bond tail a Rolls-Royce to Goldfinger's Alpine retreat by tracking a moving blip across a screen on the dashboard of his Aston Martin. Now advances in computer technology have turned this Hollywood fantasy into automotive reality...
...seeing us would know anything true," notes twelve-year-old Ann August. She and her mother Adele represent a history of shoplifted dresses, bad checks and unfurnished apartments. One epochal day, Adele flashily abandons small-town Wisconsin and whirls to Hollywood, aiming to snag a rich husband and make her child a star. At the Pacific's edge, Ann gently nourishes another dream: to outgrow people like her mother, "who start the noise and bang things, who make you feel the worst; they are the ones who get your love." Finally, Adele taunts once too often...
...publishing house will fit neatly into Murdoch's media domain, built mainly in his native Australia, Britain and the U.S. His holdings now include major newspapers in all three countries, a Hollywood movie studio, and the Sky Channel TV satellite that serves 15 European countries. Murdoch's new TV network, Fox Broadcasting, begins beaming prime-time programs to 108 U.S. stations this week...
...Chaplin used to play these sorts of raucous gags, and these days people like the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona) are among its most skillful practitioners. Blake Edwards may have lost his touch recently, but this is the man who exposed Mary Poppins' (wife Julie Andrews') breasts in the clever Hollywood expose S.O.B., and it is also the man who exposed everything you ever wanted to know about Bo Derek in 10. In addition, he is the genius behind the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers...
...about a one million dollar gift-certificate to McDonalds and a trip for two to Hollywood? No? Well, how about a sort of layaway plan--say, 10 thou a year for the next hundred years at four and a quarter percent interest...I'll even throw in my new Juice Newton album...