Word: hollywood
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...agonizing to read) condescension. Gretchen is almost comical in her one-dimensionality. All she wants is power and sex. (As Ignatius is fond of repeating, “Her appetite for sex was remarkable.”) She exists only to provide the steamy moments needed for the Hollywood adaptation the publishers are banking on. Even without such distracting cardboard characters, the book would be weighed down by Ignatius’ inane language and the dialogue. His wordy and cringe-worthy sentences are burdened by odd uses of colloquialisms, and his dialogue seems to be little more than filler. Still...
There are some nights on which you know you're going to be bad, and as I slink down the sleepy western reaches of Hong Kong's Hollywood Road-passing grimy shop fronts and shabby apartment buildings-I become aware that this is one of them. Because just for tonight, I'm going to mentally tear up the mildly disappointing results of a physical checkup I had three months ago, and play fast and loose with cardiovascular health. I'm headed for the Cheese Room, triglyceride levels be damned...
...Voyager, in which Bette Davis and Paul Henreid showed how to make and seal a romantic deal over a pair of cigarettes that were smoldering as much as the stars. Today cigarettes are more common onscreen than at any other time since midcentury: 75% of all Hollywood films--including 36% of those rated G or PG--show tobacco use, according to a 2006 survey by the University of California, San Francisco...
Harvard long believed that getting cigarettes out of movies could have as powerful an effect, but it wouldn't be easy. Cigarette makers had a history of striking product-placement deals with Hollywood, and while the 1998 tobacco settlement prevents that, nothing stops directors from incorporating smoking into scenes on their...
...films provide a glimpse of what a no-smoking--or low-smoking--Hollywood would be like. Producer Lindsay Doran, who once helped persuade director John Hughes to keep Ferris Bueller smoke-free in the 1980s hit, wanted to do the same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played by Emma Thompson had to smoke, Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it's clear the glamour's gone. And remember...