Word: hollywoodism
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...theater, you work for years and earn nothing. In Hollywood, they pay you, but they own your work” Ahrens advised aspiring artists. “If the daughter of the producer says, ‘Daddy, I think she should be sitting right there when she sings that song,’ then you have to rewrite the song...
...cheery "No." Brooking no objections, Kate is a radiantly relentless dictator of love. She's pretty, she's perky, she got her job through her rich lawyer daddy (Ryan O'Neal); we should hate her. But here is where Silverstone makes the show. Reese Witherspoon--Silverstone's successor as Hollywood's pixie of choice--has made a career of playing such characters (Election, Legally Blonde) with a stylized, satiric wink. Silverstone plays it perfectly straight and dares you to sneer instead of melt. And she wins. We ignore that most of Kate's setups fail and that, Cupid that...
...dogma. In the face of the Protestant challenge, the inquiring spirit of the High Renaissance had been overtaken by the dogmas of the Council of Trent. Eager to exploit the power of art but wary all the same of wayward artists, Rome operated like the old Hays office in Hollywood, mandating what could be shown and how to show it. Spain in particular was a cockpit of militant piety, the forcing ground for St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, as well as for the mysticism of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross...
...film audiences are certainly familiar with the concept. The dithering bride at the altar has been a Hollywood staple, from 1934's It Happened One Night to 1999's Runaway Bride. Both Rachel on Friends and Carrie on Sex and the City have returned diamond rings. But while Hollywood finds romantic tension and humor in such scenes, those who have lived through them say the experience entails unrecognized suffering. While it lacks the stigma of divorce, it nonethelss carries more complications and emotional fallout than the standard breakup. Lyn O'Hearn, 26, a travel agent from Lincoln, Neb., says...
...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...