Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNTOUCHABLES Director Brian De Palma and Writer David Mamet reimagine the gangster epic and create a witty, bloody, touching commentary on two vanished traditions: Hollywood dreammaking and American innocence...
Huston has precisely duplicated onscreen both the simple two-part structure of Joyce's story and much of its dialogue. The old Hollywood adventurer's mood and motives do not compromise Joyce's vision; they tactfully illuminate it. Indeed, Huston's handling of this material is so direct, artless and unassertive that one's first enthusiasm for it is tempered by doubt. Perhaps our desire that his last movie represent the best of his several selves is coloring our reaction. Mistrust, however, must yield to Huston's trust of his medium, his material and himself...
Does any real American ever get tired of listening to Hollywood stories? Apparently not: year after year the movie books roll off the presses. The newest -- and one of the best -- is Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr. and Ronald L. Davis (Morrow...
Boller and Davis seem to have mined every shiny nugget in the Hollywood Hills. Could any screenwriter have written funnier lines, for instance, than those of Lewis J. Selznick, one of the pioneer moguls? A victim of anti- Semitism in his native Russia, Selznick nonetheless had a forgiving nature. When Czar Nicholas II was deposed in 1917, he sent him a cable: "When I was a poor boy in Kiev some of your policemen were not kind to me . . . stop I came to America and prospered stop now hear with regret you are out of a job . . . stop feel...
Tall tales and antic anecdotes from Hollywood' s vintage wits and malaprops enliven a new anthology. -- The year' s most...