Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some, those three letters immediately conjure images of James Bond swerving in his flashy BMW, chasing perpetrators of evil who threaten the lives of millions worldwide. Amidst this glorified picture drawn by Hollywood, we must take a step back and scrutinize our nation's premier spy agency. You see, with the Agency's current recruiting practices and fierce competition from the private sector, chances are good that our friend Mr. Bond may well rather be "Bond, Investment Banker Bond," or better yet, "Bond, CEO, JamesBond.Com...
...been a while since a Woody Allen film evoked anything like raw emotion. His 1996 movie musical Everyone Says I Love You had its characters spinning in a delightful tizzy reminiscent of golden age Hollywood, but there wasnt a believable human relationship in it. His last two films, Celebrity and Deconstructing Harry, launched some dead-on potshots at the empty hysteria of modern life, but they ultimately amounted to very good one-line jokes, prompting unfair reflection that Allen had become too bitter and insular for his own good...
Background: Harvard is best known to most of the world through glossy recruitment pamphlets, Hollywood movies featuring glossy actors portraying clean-cut and brilliant students and glossy photos of well-established, aged-yet-immaculate colonial structures. In the public eye, Harvard is free of filth. To those outside the gates, our institution is spotless. Harvard students know better...
...theme park run by dinosaurs," he said, "and one is a Hollywood movie...
Though he maintains his role as a Pepperdine law professor, an author of 17 books and a contributor to Slate, The American Spectator and the Washington Post, the smartest man on basic cable is most animated when talking about Hollywood and its beautiful women. Perhaps Stein's oddest avocation is being a financial guru to hookers. "Aside from practicing pimps, nobody knows as many call girls as I do," he says. It began when Stein was a columnist for the Journal, spending his afternoons by the pool in his West Hollywood apartment building, which was populated by call girls...