Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...SALT II arms treaty, the scandal has evidently prompted the Kremlin to allow Soviet commentators to attack Reagan personally, something that was avoided in the recent past. Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, called the scandal "a truly cinematic story out of second-rate Hollywood films, in which Ronald Reagan has been featured for years...
...haranguing righteousness of Platoon. If Salvador nonetheless seems a smaller film, this is because it is content to catalog the sins of power; they do not accumulate dramatically until the final twisting crisis. But it is a fine study of a wily man tiptoeing through fatal corruption. Just like Hollywood, Stone might...
...slightly antisocial male obsessives. These women are known as otome (their male counterparts are called otaku), which roughly means "maidens," and their tastes run to the medieval fantasies found in their favorite manga, which explains why some of them dress as if they shop at Grimm's of Hollywood, in flowing gothic dresses of whitest white or blackest black. It's all part of the costume play--"cosplay"--that figures heavily in otaku-otome culture...
...Does Hollywood have the same warm feelings for Murphy? If the members can stand him, they'll probably give him a statuette, as much for services rendered as for this solid comeback performance...
...With the old man back in it, this time as a director of two estimable features, Marty could be getting another case of deja motherfreakin' vu. Or if the Academy goes the Babel route, he can blame Hollywood's invasion of Spanish immigrants...