Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...
...Hollywood too is feeling the rap beat. After Lauryn Hill passed on a role in The Cider-House Rules (an adaptation of the John Irving book), filmmakers cast hip-hop soul singer Erykah Badu. Ice Cube, who has appeared in such movies as Boyz N the Hood and Fridays, will soon star with George Clooney in the Gulf War thriller Three Kings. Queen Latifah, featured in the recent film Living Out Loud, is now set to be the host of a TV talk show. And the former Fresh Prince, Will Smith, has become one of the most in-demand actors...
Beverly Hills doesn't look like a combat zone. Rodeo Drive screams money, not mayhem. But sweetie, kiss-kiss, get out your designer flak jacket, because there's a war going on in Hollywood, and Wilshire Boulevard is ground zero. Taking up a position at one end is Michael Ovitz, the former uber-agent who repped Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks before quitting for a short-lived tenure as president of Disney. Four miserable years later, he's back from exile, offering his services as a manager and raiding clients from Creative Artists Agency, the firm just a mile away...
...Hollywood, agents and managers live in a symbiotic world, working together to cater to star egos and pocketbooks. So the seven clients with ties to both CAA and Ovitz's new AMG were appalled at their predicament. The rest of the town was enthralled. THE GREAT CAA-OVITZ WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?, blared the Hollywood Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined...
...copycat Columbia and transform these new arrangements into an industry practice. "But the real question," says Tynan, "is whether writers will ever be able to collect on such deals." Studio accounting practices are notorious for their fine print and executives have become renowned for their ability to use "that Hollywood magic" to turn hard profits into paper losses. And so for Tynan the bottom line is this: "I want to see how many years it is before the first writer collects on one of these deals." Sounds like there could be a sequel in the making...