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...many years now, American business culture has fostered a form of star worship that even a Hollywood agent might find excessive. Starting in the early 1980s with the first waves of corporate restructuring that sent millions of company men and women into the streets, the American work force's steady-Eddie performers gradually lost status to corporate hotshots and those with star potential. In the so-called war for talent, A-list players were showered with cash, stock options and perks. And in the boom years of the late 1990s, they could do no wrong. Yet it was mostly...
PROS He's Hollywood...
...mail, allowing her to shift with unnerving speed from hilarious satire--in letters to Robin Williams and Danny DeVito begging them to look at scripts--to devastatingly painful accounts of Madeleine's decline. Robinson does both with the sad, sweet voice of experience, having been around the Hollywood track a few times--she has a producing credit on Braveheart--and having seen her sister through a terminal illness. "All your life you try to imagine what bad news sounds like," she writes, "but when you actually hear bad news, it simply makes no sense; it's like being told...
...media frenzy around Schwarzenegger saddens me. I am sorry to see the low expectations we have established for a political candidate. The citizens of California deserve a Governor who is educated and politically savvy and can represent everyone. The recall election is not a Hollywood movie premiere. It is a costly process in which the citizens of California have much to lose. LINDA J. ROBERTSON Oakland,Calif...
...Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky, the 11th of 15 siblings in a Lithuanian immigrant family, Bronson followed his father to work in the coal mines of South Pennsylvania before serving as a tail gunner in World War II. Longing to escape the deprivations of his childhood, he went to Hollywood and landed supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. In Europe, Bronson made movies that fixed his screen persona as a menacing yet vulnerable protagonist. The quintessential Bronson film was 1974's Death Wish, in which he played a liberal architect turned vigilante after...