Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Universal did hold screenings for religious leaders last month, most conservatives refused to come. Instead they staged protests at the Universal lot and published an admonishing ad in the Hollywood Reporter. In a letter to MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman, Bill Bright of the Campus Crusade for Christ offered to raise money to reimburse Universal for all copies of the film, which would "promptly be destroyed." Universal responded with lofty, full-page newspaper ads in four cities, quoting Thomas Jefferson and announcing that the constitutional rights to free expression and freedom of religion were not for sale...
...terrific about our marriage is Susan's support of my work," Bridges says. "Her name should be up in the credits along with mine." After Tucker, Susan may be demanding an even bigger screen credit. The movies' most reliable leading man is about to become a white-hot Hollywood star...
...last time striking Hollywood writers disrupted the start of the fall season, in 1981, they delayed new programs on ABC, NBC and CBS by as little as two weeks. Yet that hiatus probably contributed to the networks' combined loss of 4% of the total viewing audience compared with the fourth quarter of the previous year. The drop proved more than temporary: as cable and independent stations have boomed, the big three's share of prime-time viewing has dropped from 90% at the start of the decade to just 70% in the season that ended last April...
With angry protesters on the march, Hollywood is rushing Martin Scorsese' s Last Temptation of Christ into theaters this week to let filmgoers decide for themselves. Sex scenes aside, the highly unconventional depiction raises complex issues about the life and identity of Jesus. Puzzles about the Nazarene' s reality tantalize Christians and non- Christians alike -- and have intrigued New Testament experts and divided churches throughout the 20th century. See RELIGION...
...Hollywood writers end a 22- week strike, but the fall TV season will be so late that the networks fear losing still more viewers...