Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss--have faded. Moss, Campbell and Schiffer only bothered to walk one catwalk each at last month's Milan fashion shows. Evangelista has retired, and Turlington is a student at New York University. Crawford, after co-starring in one bad Hollywood film, is trying to be a TV star, but her recent ABC special, Sex with Cindy Crawford, came in last in the ratings for its time period...
Supermodels really usurped the glamour business in the late '80s, when Hollywood stars like Julia Roberts decided to get grunged out in sweats and baseball caps for public events. What else was PEOPLE magazine to do? Then, at the 1995 Oscars, Uma Thurman showed up in some Prada dress that everyone seemed to like a whole lot, and sex symbolism returned to Hollywood. Now designers fight to establish relationships with actresses like Cameron Diaz, Tea Leoni and Claire Danes. And models get to dress badly. Last week Schiffer showed up at a New York City movie premiere wearing jeans...
...lying about her age when she was a struggling actress, a profession in which it is assumed everyone lies about his or her age; it was only for consistency's sake, she claimed, that she continued lying once she became a writer. What Weston left unsaid is that given Hollywood's relentless, cannibalistic hunger for the new thing, TV writers too lie about their age all the time, often shaving years and suspiciously dated credits (Who's the Boss? Uh-oh) from their resumes. A thirtysomething friend of a friend of a friend of mine, a comedy writer, even...
Over the last two decades, the heavy praise lavished on John Carpenter by his cult following has given the director a bit of a reputation as a Hollywood "visionary." In truth, he is little more than a competent filmmaker, capable of producing solid genre pieces. But Carpenter is dead-on in his interpretation of the material for Vampires. Understanding the maniacal and often
...from Newark, but his passion never really climaxes, and his understanding of the world never really evokes sympathy. This man, irate Ira Ringold, is a 1950s radio star who has never given up the Communist passions he picked up as an uneducated GI and whose marriage to a Hollywood actress, a closet Jew in thrall to her 24 year old harpist daughter, is a poor buffer against Ira's ongoing, subconscioussearch "for a way not to kill anybody." Ira wantseverything he does to be as big as his own temper,and I Married a Communist is a tragicomedyabout how that...