Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...
...arms of Jeff Cooper (Sam Shepard), who accurately describes himself as "the only man in town under 60." Shepard spends his screen time looking befuddled, as if to ask, "Was there any reason I was cast in this film, other than that I am the only man in Hollywood with teeth as bad as Diane Keaton...
Tour of Duty, CBS's ambitious Viet Nam series, should have been smarter and better timed. This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin...
When David Puttnam was forced to resign last week as head of Columbia Pictures, it marked the failure of a Hollywood experiment. The acclaimed British producer (The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire) was a surprise choice when he was hired last year. A critic of inflated budgets and unimaginative scripts, Puttnam promised to devote an entire studio to the kind of original and inexpensive films he had made...
...game of blackjack. With its saucy patter, crisp editing and brazen sentimentality, The Pick-Up Artist is Toback's first conventional, sit-throughable picture. It is also his most negligible. No life or art is on the line here, just the career of a panther who wants to convince Hollywood he's a pussycat...