Word: hollywoodism
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...didn't excise the Old Testament rules on adultery or idolizing graven images; they started drawing up plans for Tony Roma's and Red Lobsters. Martin Luther could have saved himself 94 theses just by posting one about getting rid of fish on Friday. The Scientology Celebrity Center in Hollywood has a Sunday brunch buffet you would not believe...
...dozens of rappers who have come to Hollywood over the past two decades have achieved undeniable commercial success, but only a few--Will Smith, Queen Latifah, Mos Def--are regularly called on to play something other than big-screen versions of themselves. Undoubtedly there are studio heads with limited conceptions of what those (mostly African-American) selves can be, yet there's also plenty of evidence to suggest that some rappers treat acting as an entitlement rather than a calling. "I've heard crazy stories about rappers who get big money to be in films who just don't show...
...order to separate himself from the pack, Benjamin, 30, has spent the past three years taking acting lessons and navigating through Hollywood's stereotypes about rappers. One measure of his success arrives this Friday. In Four Brothers, a revenge movie about a family of gun-toting, black and white, adopted brothers (based loosely on the 1965 John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder), Benjamin plays Jeremiah Mercer, the least trigger-happy character. The movie was directed by Singleton. "Dre came out here, worked hard and ate the whole humble pie," says Singleton. "Now things are heating...
...cultishly admired Mick Jagger movie Performance in 1970)--who did all the heavy lifting on both treatment and novel. Thomson says Brando chatted with Cammell about the story and scratched a few notes in the margins of the evolving manuscript. That is the not entirely surprising way that Hollywood legends write. Or should we say "write...
...unique Hollywood story, out of which one might make a far better novel than Fan-Tan. The book has some modest, largely descriptive merits but is essentially just another celebrity scam. --By Richard Schickel