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...resemblance does not end there. Even some of their critics compare the Go-Go Boys to Hollywood's founding fathers, who snorted when anyone talked about art in films and were devoted to making money. "They are like the old studio moguls; they eat, sleep and breathe pictures," says J. Lee Thompson, a 50-year show-biz veteran who is directing one of their thrillers, Murphy's Law. "The whole industry used to be like that. It's not now." Globus agrees: "The moguls cared to make money like we care to make money--so that they could make more...
...learned everything he needed and then returned home in 1962. Globus, who had gone to business school in Tel Aviv, joined him in 1963 to form Noah Films, which eventually dominated the Israeli film industry. In 1979 they decided to move their base to Mecca, as they call Hollywood, and bought control of the ailing Cannon Group...
...years or so became common not only in movies but also in television dramas. Actors did not give the subject much thought until it came out last summer that Rock Hudson had given Linda Evans a passionate kiss on Dynasty when he knew he had AIDS. No one in Hollywood talked about anything else. The screen kiss suddenly became a frightening threat. In October the Screen Actors' Guild sent a letter to 7,000 producers and agents informing them that from now on they must notify actors in advance of any scenes that require openmouthed kissing...
...musical and 1972 movie; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Always a rebel, he went to Berlin in 1929 to sample its illicit pleasures, as well as to visit his lifelong friend and sometime lover, W. H. Auden. An immigrant to the U.S. in 1939, Isherwood became an occasional Hollywood screenwriter and lecturer at various California campuses in his later years. He also wrote openly about his homosexuality in novels (A Single Man, 1964) and in his autobiographical Christopher and His Kind...
Welcome, once again, to hard times among the upwardly mobile. And welcome, once again, to Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), which Paul Mazursky has revised in the process of remaking, possibly with half an eye on My Man Godfrey, that 1936 Hollywood parable of regeneration among the pampered class. This time the bum, who is not only rescued from suicide but given bed and board by the guilt-ridden paterfamilias, is played by Nick Nolte, and he makes a good job of it, especially if one's memories of shaggy Michel Simon in the original have been...