Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maxim in Hollywood that "no one knows anything." Of course, this couldn't be true in non-show business because if it were, what would be the point of listening to heavyweight economists and high-flying financial managers? Surely such people--and their very rich clients--know precisely what they're doing. Surely. But that faith didn't prevent penny-ante investors from enjoying a bit of Emperor's-new-clothes schadenfreude at the near collapse of Long Term Capital Management, the secretive multibillion-dollar hedge fund based in Greenwich, Conn...
...enjoyed the profile of the "Lion of Hollywood," Louis B. Mayer, who helped found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. For those of us growing up in the mid-1930s in the New York metropolitan area, Hollywood films were not only cheap entertainment but lessons as well. We safely watched suitable family entertainment, and on Saturday afternoons had a four-hour treat. For 25[cents] we could watch two great movies plus a cartoon and an exciting weekly chapter of a serial. What a great escape! JOAN S. MARKOWITZ Larchmont...
...Nice Guy does not easily wear the albatross of eminence. He may joke about it: "I'm powerful enough now to be taken seriously," he says, snapping his fingers like a born Hollywood sharpie. "Plenty of people take my phone calls!" He can also get plaintive: "Me famous?" he asks. "I can't embrace it for a moment. You guys do that." But he knows he is expected to think he's famous, and to love it: "I was working 18-hour days on That Thing You Do!," he says of the 1996 film he wrote and directed...
...With public disgust at our mendacious public life at critical mass, Warren Beatty imagines a U.S. Senator who starts telling the truth about the powerful. He's nuts, of course, but the star, director, co-writer and rapster is in a reckless mood. His maniacally skillful movie is that Hollywood rarity: political satire with real, wounding bite...
...LIVE FLESH It could be a 1940s Hollywood melodrama or an 1840s French farce, but Pedro Almodovar's gaudy thriller is as modern as Monica. His characters hurl themselves off fate's precipice to find love, lust, deliverance. A wise woman tells her beau that "making love involves two people." That's right: delirious director, dazzled viewer...