Word: hollywood
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Looking like Santa demands a certain demeanor even when not dandling kids on one's knee. "If someone cuts you off on the freeway, all you can do is smile and wave," says Connaghan, who has played Santa in the Hollywood Christmas Parade...
...Although the U.S. domestic tobacco industry has agreed to stop paid cigarette brand placements, activists want Hollywood to incorporate smoking as a part of its voluntary ratings system, which now judges movies according to sex, violence and foul language. According to the Centers for Disease Control, smoking among teenagers is no longer dropping as it did during the late 1990s, and smoking in films is partly responsible. "Movies deliver billions of glamorized pro-smoking messages to adolescents in this country," says James Sargent, M.D., a Dartmouth Medical School professor who researches the impact on children of movies with smoking scenes...
...Celebrity spokeswoman for the Ab Roller B) The romantic lead in a new Tim McGraw film about a down-on-his-luck bull rider C) The highest paid Hollywood actress in 2006, with a $17 million paycheck D) Philip Roth's new fictional alter...
There's a movie we're working on, the remake of a French movie called 36. And I'm in a movie from a book written by [producer] Art Linson and directed by Barry Levinson. It's about a Hollywood producer. I play the producer. It's based on real experiences that...
...Jump to Hollywood's blaxploitation era in the 1960s, when blacks suddenly were allowed to make movies told from our point of view. Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--an ode to a wronged black man on the run from the cops--introduced the lead character as a "baadasssss nigger coming back to collect some dues!" And that "nigger" in the film, as Van Peebles tells it, snapped the streak of "liberal, sort of nice movies where we always ended up dead...