Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe one of those soldiers could have come home and saved her from her sad, passive fate. But If This Was Happiness makes such a possibility seem unlikely. Barbara Leaming, who has also written biographies of Roman Polanski and Orson Welles (Rita Hayworth's second husband), argues that Hollywood's Love Goddess was doomed from childhood to a private hell of uncertainty and unhappiness...
Nonetheless, the deal will bring Hollywood's two hottest producers to Columbia Pictures. That should help stabilize a struggling studio that has gone through three top management teams since 1978 and had been at a standstill while awaiting the outcome of the Sony-Warner battle. But after paying a spectacular price for admission to the U.S. movie business, Sony will expect its two hitmakers to deliver some true Hollywood miracles...
...star gets what may be his best laugh in Harlem Nights before he appears. The moment occurs when Eddie Murphy's name flashes in the credits for the fifth time. This may represent the new Hollywood record for authorial egotism. It is, in any case, three more mentions than Woody Allen requires to state his creative credentials for a truly imaginative comedy and two more than Orson Welles took for his film directorial debut, which was -- let's see, oh, yes -- Citizen Kane...
...studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Della Reese -- and cast them as the management of a club too prosperous for its own good. A powerful white mob is trying to move in on them...
...they are not much different from the alarmed press comments that are now greeting Japan's continuing economic ventures. When the Sony Corp. announced in September that it would buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment, for example, Newsweek called the deal "the biggest advance so far in a Japanese invasion of Hollywood." An entertainment-industry executive quoted by the Washington Post thought the acquisition might be "bad for America," as did an economist who saw "a potential for propaganda...