Word: hollywood
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What Greed's viewers will see is not exactly the show Clark originally had in mind. Assembling two Hollywood game-show veterans--Bob Boden, a producer of the syndicated Family Feud, and Jeff Mirkin, whose credits include Love Connection and Studs--Clark outlined a quiz format that would involve group participation and a share-the-wealth ethos. "I was inspired by those scenes of lottery winners--you know, the guys in the office who chipped in on a ticket." That first meeting produced a working title, All for One, and the notion that the questions would be based...
DIED. ABRAHAM POLONSKY, 88, film-noir screenwriter and director who was blacklisted for nearly 20 years for refusing to name names at the height of McCarthy hysteria; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Polonsky, who won an Oscar nomination for the 1947 boxing film Body and Soul, continued to work in Hollywood pseudonymously...
...modern world, you can even have sex and parenthood without suffering the bit in between. Some Hollywood actresses may have satisfied the urge for mothering by electing to adopt children rather than spoil their figures (as they see it) by childbearing. For people as beautiful as this, the temptation to adopt a clone (reared in a surrogate womb) could one day be irresistible...
...Translator: The goal is to expose the American audience to the quality works by Chinese directors and foreign directors in general, which is the goal of the Harvard Film Archive. Because of the prevalence of Hollywood, foreign directors like Zhang Yuan are not as widely known here as they are in Europe...
...Bizarre, unpredictable, grotesque and yet strangely poignant, julien donkey-boy is above all unforgettable. If you're tired of the standard Hollywood fare, check out this daring experiment in cinematic syntax...