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...quest for Hollywood success, actor Steve J. Sandvoss ’02 is turning to a source of ideas that the film industry often ignores: college screenwriters. With his brother Peter, Sandvoss has started a unique production company called Beep Box Productions. They have started a campaign to recruit scripts from college students by visiting college campuses and taking submissions at their website, “getmymoviemade.com.” “Things are changing here [in Hollywood],” Sandvoss says. “It’s not gonna be only the big studio bosses...
Directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech The Weinstein Company 1 1/2 stars There are few better formulas for making serious bank in Hollywood than the animated family film. Thanks to “Shrek” and “Finding Nemo,” the elements of the genre are now well-defined: endearing stories and characters, lifelike digital effects, and humor just edgy enough to please parents and teens without corrupting the kids. So with the public so hungry for wholesome digital fun, it’s no surprise that formidable Hollywood execs Harvey...
...cruel paradox of Hollywood actors is that they work in a fickle, money-obsessed industry in which reputations rise and fall overnight, yet success in the business comes from being sensitive, vulnerable and laying one's self bare before the camera. The resulting meltdowns-from Marilyn Monroe's to Robert Downey Jr.'s-are legendary and have created a booming aftermarket in therapists and therapies designed to help actors maintain peak performance in the face of depression, anxiety, stage fright, creative blocks, narcissistic disorders, substance abuse and all the other ills their profession is heir to. In the 1970s, actors...
...even success in Hollywood brings perils, given that it often comes in a flash, from one big hit rather than from building gradually. Suddenly the actor or actress is hot. Everyone wants to be seen with him or her. Clubs and restaurants fling open their doors. Life becomes a celebrity-magazine fantasy, divorced from reality. "It is very hard for someone like that to connect with how they became successful," says Solomon. "You aren't what everyone thinks you are, so you don't believe in yourself. Or you do believe it, and then you have a whole load...
...Hollywood, the land of make-believe, will probably always produce tormented characters dazzled by the lights and cameras. And just as surely, it will produce new generations of therapists finding new ways to reclaim reality from the glitter of stardom...