Word: hollywoodism
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...race that's over before it used to begin ... A ratings ploy that could backfire ... On Oscar night, Hollywood may produce its own disaster movie. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...year marriage is an eternity by Hollywood standards. Still, it came as a shock last week when Pixar and Disney announced an end to their long and lucrative partnership. As a team, they had given moviegoers some of the greatest animated films in history, from Toy Story to last year's Finding Nemo, hauling in a total of $2.6 billion at the box office. The two studios have a profit-sharing deal, but Pixar wanted to end it early and pay Disney a straight distribution commission. Despite 10 months of negotiating, the two were still at loggerheads. Finally Pixar...
...most media attention of this spring’s fellows at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), but he’s surrounded by a seasoned cadre of politicos who will provide insights into this year’s presidential election: an expert on youth and Hollywood perspectives on politics, a longtime Democratic strategist, the Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, a former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and an expert on political mobilization...
...intersection of politics and Hollywood will be the focus of a study group led by Meredith Bagby ’95, who has worked as an author, a journalist and most recently a creative executive with DreamWorks SKG, a film production company. Bagby said that she got her first taste of politics as an undergraduate at the IOP, and that she seeks to turn her generation on to public life through a blend of entertainment and journalism...
DIED. RAY STARK, 88, powerful Hollywood producer who had long associations with Barbra Streisand and Neil Simon; in West Hollywood. For his first film, Funny Girl, based on his real-life mother-in-law, Fanny Brice, he chose Streisand over established stars after hearing her sing in a New York City nightclub. His long career included more than 125 films, among them The Goodbye Girl, Annie and Steel Magnolias...