Word: hollywoodism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DIED. PAUL WINFIELD, 62, prolific Hollywood actor whose role as a poor sharecropper in the 1972 film Sounder earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor; in Los Angeles. Winfield was known for his portrayals of dignified authority figures, most notably Martin Luther King Jr., whom he played in a 1978 TV mini-series. He won an Emmy Award in 1995 for his role as a judge in the TV series Picket Fences...
...Hollywood agents don't get pity. They get 10%. But spare a kind thought for Johnny Depp's agent, Tracy Jacobs. For more than a decade, her client--one of the world's best actors and best-looking human beings--has consistently turned down glamorous leading-man roles in large, profitable movies so that he could play a chorus of memorable (to those who saw them) character parts, like Cesar, the Gypsy horseman in The Man Who Cried, or Bon Bon, the Cuban transvestite prostitute who smuggles prison contraband in his rectum in Before Night Falls. Only Crispin Glover...
...Carrey and Kate Winslet bathing in a kitchen sink (why is that sink so big?) or Mark Ruffalo and Kirsten Dunst dancing in their underwear (why is Kirsten Dunst not more often dancing in her underwear?). Throw in Charlie Kaufman, the most reliable screenwriter functioning in Hollywood today, and the inspired use of ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky,” and already saliva stains are appearing down my shirt...
...course, the bulk of my movie cash is saved up for all the popcorn I’m buying when Hollywood pulls out the big guns. Based on the really killer trailer, I’ve got some high hopes for zombie-filled remake Dawn of the Dead, which will hopefully maintain the satirist attitude of the original while avoiding the general tedium of last year’s 28 Days Later. Kill Bill: Volume Two is supposed to be more Tarantino than the first one, though at this point, I’d be pretty content just...
...love The Manchurian Candidate, and, like you, I’m apprehensive about the remake; I don’t think that Jonathan Demme’s flair can compensate for a script written by a guy whose past credits include The Sum of All Fears and Doc Hollywood. On the other hand, I don’t think that remakes are necessarily bad, especially with the right cachet; I was fine with paying top dollar to see the Psycho remake, for example, because I couldn’t pass up the chance to see William H. Macy and Julianne...