Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what a week in L.A., where basketball's prodigal problem child took El Nino's spot on the roster of California calamities. Rodman rained tears at a press conference held at--where else?--Planet Hollywood in Beverly Hills, where he complained about being unappreciated and underpaid but was profanely perky while discussing his sex life with current wife and former Baywatch babe Carmen Electra...
...keep a good-looking actress down. At least you can't keep her salary down. According to the Hollywood Reporter, JULIA ROBERTS will become the first female to break into the formerly all-male $20 million club for the forthcoming film Erin Brockovich. Roberts joins such handsomely remunerated actors as the two Toms (Hanks and Cruise), Jim Carrey and Mel Gibson. The film, based on the true story of a legal secretary who takes on an environmental-pollution case and wins one of the largest class-actions ever, will be directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-produced by Universal...
...Hollywood, history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities of modern life have derived moral instruction and emotional uplift from these transformations of the complex past into simple, glowing metaphorical guides to right behavior...
...resists simple plotting and easy moralizing. It is, in fact, a script trapped forever in development (and sometimes in turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both...
...While Hollywood seems to have rediscovered the Bard this year, folks in southern Oregon have been brushing up their Shakespeare for years. Nestled amid the timber-covered Siskiyou Mountains, the hamlet of Ashland is host each February till October to thousands of theatergoers at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. After coming for the theater, many return--permanently--to avail themselves of the diversity that can be found in the surrounding area...