Word: hollywoodism
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...photo, by George Strock, is mesmerizing. There is an unadorned bleakness to it that is unsettling even now, after a half-century of casual, blood-ripped Hollywood action fantasies. And it is far more potent than anything we've seen from Iraq during the first 10 days of the war. This is puzzling. We are closer to war than ever before--hardly half an hour goes by without some embedded ace breathlessly reporting, in real time, from the front. But the war we are seeing is bowdlerized, PG-rated. There are fancy explosions galore, shown from a great distance; there...
CHICAGO. The potential revival of the Hollywood musical is upon us with Chicago—for better or worse. Ignoring its politicized ramifications as a genre revival, Chicago on its own is a pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Winner of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design...
Traditionally, film is divided between documentary (or non-fiction) film and narrative film, the type popularized by Hollywood movies...
...social butterfly—who had famously kissed Anthony Hopkins before dozens of cameras—who used the money to throw parties and go to spas, and her partner in crime was a DVD-hoarding, alleged drug user. Factor in an illustrious drag theater group, a parade of Hollywood celebrities, and a year of corporate misdoing, all at Harvard, and you had yourself a story. That it didn’t make bigger headlines was probably only the function of the lack of follow-up news available...
...quarter million dollar, Hollywood-designed briefing room for United States Central Command tells it all. This is going to be a war unlike any other in the history of the world. But what will make this war different will not be the manner in which it is fought, or the tactics that the troops will use (for “shock and awe” is as old as warfare itself), but that never before has a war been produced for a television audience...