Word: hollywoodism
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...Hollywood, many are counting on fans like Bolger, Shaw, Hubbell, and Capp to help pull the film industry out of a rut of low ticket sales...
...there's one thing that commercial American films know how to do, it's fill a screen with splendor. A huge screen, like the one in the Grand Palais' Lumiere theater, makes any Hollywood-style movie look better. Basic Instinct, no world-beater, had a pearly, febrile glamour when it was shown on opening night here 13 years ago. And Sith, a spiffy catalog of the things Hollywood does best, found its perfect showcase in the Lumiere. Of course the audience of 2,400 exulted when the Star Wars logo first appeared; that happens any time...
...THEIR HOLLYWOOD HOOKUP...
Filmmakers are beginning to experiment once again with 3-D MOVIES. Back in 1953, when the new technology first took Hollywood by storm, it was seen as the savior of a slumping business...
...face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride on a roller coaster. Had Hollywood really done any more than recapture the public's attention by slapping it in the face? Had a real technical and artistic revolution been started in the movie world? Said one moviemaker confidently: "Hollywood is at the beginning of a new age of prosperity...