Word: hollywoodism
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Ultimately, though, “I just couldn’t quit”—and for reasons that would make Hollywood screenwriters drool. Wheeler loves the game. He loves his teammates. He loves what he learned from his father, Bill, a Tennessean catcher who earned a scholarship to Vanderbilt, only to blow out his knee before backstopping a single pitch for the Commodores...
...another point of contention revolved around his Hollywood friendships and the impartiality demanded by the Times pulpit. Harvey Weinstein, the former Miramax head and one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, notoriously put his arm around Mitchell and said he was his “favorite film critic” after the premiere screening of the 2001 John Cusack romantic comedy Serendipity, according to The New York Observer...
Either way, though, it doesn’t seem like Mitchell will be too upset—should his teaching career be interrupted, he’ll always have those two radio shows, his production consulting job, and a bevy of Hollywood connections to fall back...
...Then, Hollywood beckoned, and Hitchcock moved to California for better weather and bigger budgets. It was here that his career blossomed for over three decades. It came to a close in the late 1970s, when he became too old to direct as he wished. He passed away in 1980, less than a year after officially retiring...
...with Hitchcock’s movies, particularly those made in Hollywood, that Chandler concerns herself. Dull plot synopses are given for each film, along with whatever interesting anecdotes those involved can recall...