Word: hollywood
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...found nine worthies--some with just good intentions, many that hit the mark. These are the more ambitious films on display this month, and they ardently hope to be around on the last Sunday night in February. For this is the season when kids write to Santa, and Hollywood starts dreaming of Oscar...
...Writing. I never really wanted to be an actor because I grew up watching my mother's career decline. Why would I have any illusions about the glamour of Hollywood or wanting to be a star? What I knew early on is that it all goes away. I grew up watching endings. Acting was never as enjoyable to me as it is to someone who hasn't seen it before...
Implacably pierced and outfitted in jewelry ranging from precious stones to human bones, the actors and actresses that populate the screen do so beautifully, in particular the lead Rudy Youngblood. The casting, unconventional and far from stereotypical Hollywood, is impeccable, as is the decision to have the characters speaking a Mayan dialect (no worries, this, like “The Passion of the Christ,” has English subtitles). In English, the movie would be ludicrous, but in Mayan the alien words contribute to the recreation of this long gone world...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...
...first began in Berlin in the late 1920s. After writing as a journalist for the German tabloids, Wilder turned to screenplays. During the rise of Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, fled from Berlin to Paris. When he left Paris for the United States in 1933, he landed fortuitously in Hollywood...