Word: hollywoodism
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...Greed. Infectious greed. However unsuitable the material may be for kids, Hollywood wants their disposable income. The 10-to-12 crowd helps pay the salaries and points of pricey artistes like Spielberg and Myers. A studio pays them so highly, it needs a guarantee that the film will be available to the widest possible audiences, so a PG-13 rating is often built into the contracts. The only thing dirtier than the gags in Goldmember is the money that's made from them...
...Reno is having the dance party for many reasons, several having to do with postmodernism, the triumph of irony and the melding of Hollywood and Washington. But the biggest reason is that she trails incumbent Jeb Bush 37% to 53%. Plus, the Florida Democratic establishment wants nothing to do with her. With so little to lose, she figures, why not impersonate Will Ferrell's impersonation of her on Saturday Night Live? The people on the Bush team are either so confident or so pressed for social outlets that four of them are coming to the party...
Indian pop cinema--that exotic, rhapsodic blend of smiles and tears, song and dance--is the world's most teeming film industry. At nearly 1,000 films a year in 20 languages, its output far outstrips Hollywood's. So no surprise that an awards show honoring Bollywood (meaning Hollywood in Bombay) can fill the seats of a large arena...
...with our cultural prejudices. (All that singing! All that feeling! For three hours!?) Yet one can hope for an improbable, movie-style happy ending--that the next time Indian stars and directors come to America, they'll be picking up their prizes not at Bollywood's Awards, but at Hollywood...
Gale Shamama, 61, a widow and guidance counselor from Hollywood, Fla., took a stab at meeting someone on the Net through JDate.com a website for Jewish singles. But in her experience, the appealing and respectable men she sought were not easy to locate. "I recently spoke with someone I found through the Internet who was kind of obnoxious and crude," Shamama says. "I'd much rather go out for dinner and a movie with my close female friends than talk to someone like that...