Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where does Dustin Hoffman, Hollywood's hottest leading actor, go to try his hand at Shakespeare? Where does composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who has had six megamusicals on Broadway in the '80s, launch his latest? Where does American playwright Martin Sherman (Bent) debut a work about his countrymen in exile...
...wife Cindy, his college sweetheart, left a good job at Delta Air Lines when the Costners began a family, which now includes Annie, 5, Lily, 2 1/2, and Joe, 1 1/2. "She's active, she's involved," Dan says of Cindy. "She doesn't want to be a Hollywood wife." The couple seem close, considering that one of them is a screen stud with a gypsy work schedule. In April, Costner took his wife, children and parents to the gala opening of the Disney/MGM Studios Theme Park...
Frrrrrrom Hollywood, New York and Nebraska, a scandalmongering biography, King of the Night (Morrow; $19.95) by Laurence Leamer, who invites you to join Johnny Carson and his uninvited guests: resentful ex-wives, assorted children, girlfriends, colleagues, producers, comedians. And now, ladies and gentlemen, heeeeere's Johnny...
...long life, from Communism to kissing. His respect for the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev has grown stronger. "I have met a number of leaders, and he is different," insists Reagan. "He is trying to straighten things out." For his part, the old actor would like to straighten out Hollywood. "((In)) a movie kiss in the old days, the two of you were barely touching lips. You did not want any face being pushed out of shape. It is awful." Maybe he should get back in the movies to show them how? "I think that would look like trying...
...best kind of bright early summer's day spoiled by the worst kind of dark imaginings: Is it possible that in this season, otherwise so full of innocent promise, Hollywood executives banish all thought of us as audience -- discerning, judicious, culturally literate? Does the solstice induce in them some Kafkaesque mental process by which we are converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed...