Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood Pictures...
...Terence plays The Limey, I play the Slimey," Peter Fonda chuckles. He speaks of his latest role opposite Terence Stamp in Steven Soderbergh's new film. It's true-slick and once-successful Terry Valentine dirties his hands with drug smuggling and even murder to preserve his comfortable Hollywood Hills lifestyle. On the other hand, Fonda's performance paints the villain ambiguously, making despicable Valentine likeable and ultimately pitiable...
...carries himself with an aura of dignity and the nostalgia of one who experienced the myth of that era first hand. For the audience, this performance evokes associations to Fonda's own part in shaping the '60s. Not only remembered for his biker roles, he was once seen as Hollywood's bad boy. Fonda is even said to have inspired the Beatles' "She Said, She Said" by repeatedly telling John Lennon, tripping on acid, "I know what it's like to be dead...
...sets the tone for this lukewarm comedy. The next scene shows the now familiar Mary Katherine in school, first being mocked by the class beauty, Evian (Elaine Hendrix), and then pining away for the most popular guy in school, Sky (Will Ferrel). Undaunted, Mary Katherine longs to be a Hollywood superstar so she can get her first movie-style kiss, preferably from Sky. Opportunity presents itself in the form of a talent contest held at her school. Meanwhile the slightly deranged fellow classmate Slater (Glynis Johns) develops a crush on Mary Katherine...
...football? Energy billionaire Robert McNair was oilman-frank about how he brought the NFL back to Houston ?- by going "higher than any reasonable person would go" with a negotiations-ending $700 million bid for a franchise. "We knew we differentiated ourselves," he said. Result? Two groups (one led by Hollywood power broker Mike Ovitz) that wanted to bring a team back to oft-abandoned Los Angeles are going home unhappy. And the price of a sports team ? which these days comes with the additional cost of the kind of snazzy stadium that McNair is promising in Houston ?- has just been...