Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor in his too-rapid success, locating a dimness behind his eyes when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones. As for Hunter, she graduates with honors from off-Broadway (The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Raising Arizona) to fill the center of this demanding movie with cracker charm and elfin steel. Hail, Holly: daredevil actress...
...Hollywood has had dog years before. True, Rin Tin Tin kept Warner Bros. from going broke in the '20s, and Lassie was one of MGM's biggest money earners in the '40s. But now, it seems, nearly every movie, TV series or commercial has another of man's best friends wagging and barking away. Among the other rising dog stars of 1987 are Grendel, the yuppie puppy on ABC's family drama thirtysomething, and Bo, the German shepherd-husky half-breed of Summer School...
...doggery? Kitty Brown, editor of Animal Entertainment, a New York City trade publication, thinks the answer has a lot to do with the mood of the late '80s. "Times are tough," she says, "and we need a little innocence, something that hearkens back to childhood." Others might say that Hollywood hearkens to money: if one dog movie cashes in, ten imitations sprout up within a year...
...will appear in a supporting role in Robert Downey's new movie Rented Lips. "He wasn't playing Hamlet, but Spuds was perfect on the first take every time," says Film Producer Mort Engelberg. "He didn't ask for overtime, and there was no sexual misconduct on the set." Hollywood, in short, seems at last to be barking up the right tree...
...Hollywood is going to the dogs. The screens are full of snappy thespians, from Hooperman' s Bijoux to Spuds MacKenzie...