Word: hollywood
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...Tell Stories and learned that Wilde's novel (which Booker describes as a "black fairy tale") headed the list of classic tragedies. And then there was the accidental death earlier this year of the actor Heath Ledger. "You have this beautiful, talented being dropped into another world - Hollywood - where everyone wants to get in with you," says Bourne. "Would he have died if he'd stayed in Australia, I wonder, or was he a victim of modern celebrity...
...Alive, the Woodman has not been residing in the auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades. There was a four-film stretch of genuine stinkers - Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending and Anything Else - followed by one, Melinda and Melinda, that rose to the level of eh. And since this quintessential New Yorker exiled himself to Europe (where his fondest admirers live, and where the money for his pictures now comes from), he'd made a suave sex-and-murder mystery, Match Point, and two that deserve to have the veil of anonymity drawn...
...This month, Franken stopped arguing about how un-Hollywood his lifestyle is (he's been married to the same Minnesota woman for 32 years, and she made extra sandwiches when she heard I was spending the day with him) and instead ran ads about how he's not proud of all the jokes he's told. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic Senator from Plymouth, Minn., applauded Franken for that. "Minnesotans, if they hear people saying things they think are inappropriate, they want an explanation. I think it's good he confronted it and talked about it." Franken has hired all kinds...
...Hayes' theme - for the proto-blaxploitation policier than helped yank Hollywood's depiction of African-American males from the sanctity of Sidney Poitier into the grittier image of the stud male who rules the streets with a sizzling machismo - was a cunning mix of wocka-wocka percussion, soaring violins, a sassy girl group whispering the hero's name as if it were a phallic deity and, anchoring it all, the basso talk-singing of the studly composer. "Who's the black private dick / That's a sex machine to all the chicks?" Girls: "SHAFT!" Hayes: "Ya damn right!" Hayes: "They...
...verbal concoction would be startling enough just for a single on Vietnam-era AM radio, where the song hit the top of the pop charts. What's extraordinary is that Theme from Shaft somehow beguiled the Bel Air senior citizens who constitute the Academy membership. Hayes, a newcomer to Hollywood movie scoring, was up against such former and future Oscar winners as Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Marvin Hamlisch and the Sherman Brothers. The award typically went to doyens of the classic-pop establishment, all of whom were white. For nearly two decades, the movie-music fraternity had fought the onslaught...