Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagined--chaining a man to a truck and dragging him three miles until he dies of his injuries. And the protagonist is a dime-store white supremacist, spouting anti-black and anti-Semitic dogma and spewing hatred to the bitter end. Last week a Jasper jury tacked a Hollywood ending onto King's life story, convicting him of first-degree murder and sentencing him to death by lethal injection...
...everyday like the afternoon light as it casts a shadow against a dusty bureau. Chaudhuri's novels are more intimate and optimistic than Carver's tales of people mired in middle age depression. They focus on the unexceptional-impressions of people's lives rather than plot-driven Hollywood cliffhangers with dazzling denouements. There may be an occasional epiphany, a sudden realization about particular relationships between characters, but the "aha" factor is minute and quite understated. The arc of the three novels is practically flat, with no particular direction or resolution in mind. What Chaudhuri is more interested in is relishing...
...life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime Wave in Ellroy's career...
Conventional wisdom has if that big Hollywood stars are ambitious, self-impressed, self-promoting: they are the beautiful people, the ones we love to hate, In light of all this notoriety, I was more than a little surprised to meet easy-going Paul Rudd, the young actor who as charmed critics and audiences in his starring roles on Broadway stages and in the movies Cluelessand The Object of My Affection as a likable personality and a credible romantic interest. In his new feature role in the early 80s ensemble film 200 Cigarettes, Rudd plays a lovelorn cynic with the best...
...down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions are certainly helped by the director, their essence lies with Walker, who with just two screenplays has established himself as Hollywood's most brutally pessimistic screenwriter...