Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flying Giacchetto has crash-landed. His glitziest investors--Matt, Cameron, Leo--have abandoned him. A high-profile venture-capital investment fund he helped set up with a subsidiary of the Chase Manhattan Bank to attract celebrity dollars has disintegrated. And the once worshipful buzz has suddenly turned ugly. In Hollywood, a town built on tales of golden boys brought down, the wags are debating the reasons for his steep descent...
...fails in Ride With the Devil. The film is not poorly conceived, but his past films and demonstrated talent grant occasion to expect more from him. This time, Lee tries too hard bridge the gap between the subtlety and serious nature of indie films with the demands of a Hollywood audience. Unfortunately, he loses both audiences...
...would be so ergonomically perfect that you would be like oh, this is heaven....There are parts of me that want to jump out and go to Hollywood and pretend to be an actor for awhile. There are parts of me that want to sit down and write screenplays...
...didn't go through four years of $wank school to be called Aaron. The first definition of $wank is smooth with a swagger walk. OK, fine. The second definition is showy but at the same time endearing, kinda like my grandfather. I'm a little bit of the Hollywood type....I'm the Playboy on-campus rep. You get a party budget, you hand out T-shirts to see what the mood is on campus. The idea of Playboy is party; it has nothing to do with women. It's like I'm an unpaid journalist. I've never given...
...first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which normally takes between seven and eight minutes, here is over in less than three. The sole exception is the uncut version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice extracted from the original Fantasia, in which Leopold Stokowski hypnotized an anonymous band of Hollywood studio musicians into sounding just like the Philadelphia Orchestra in its blazingly vital prewar prime. Even the ancient paleo-stereo sound track of that sequence has a raw, visceral impact missing from the glossy digital audio heard elsewhere in Fantasia...