Word: hollywoodism
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...right, that?s a trick answer. It happens that the Indian film industry called Bollywood (not the American one called Hollywood) makes the most movies per year, and that in virtually every Indian picture is a musical. Though fans of Kelly?s "On the Town," "An American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain" might not recognize the form, the fact is that, whether an Indian movie is a love story or a period epic or a four-hour saga about cricket, at some point people will sing and dance in dazzling, delirious production numbers. And as often...
...that?s Indi-tainment. Pretty much everywhere else - including places like France, Britain and Hong Kong, where decades ago musicals were a prominent, sometimes predominant form - the musical is dead. Nowhere is it more dormant, of course, than where it all started, in Hollywood...
...early talking picture format as well. The idea was to give the movie audience a little bit of everything: comedy, drama, song, dance. Young moviegoers saw the dancing, liked it, and wanted to try it. When talent matched ambition, a new generation of dancers was born, restocking Broadway and Hollywood...
...movie was directed by Oscar-winning Hollywood veteran Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, Out of Africa); it grossed over $250 million worldwide and garnered two Oscar nominations and favorable reviews. It contorts to make the McDeeres’ relationship at least somewhat balanced. Mitch (Tom Cruise) confesses to Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn) about his Cayman Islands tryst. She achieves some measure of movie-style retribution by not telling her hubby whether or not she slept with his boss (Gene Hackman) while she stole files from him. Of course, she didn’t—equality has its limits and no woman will...
...hadn’t realized when I walked out of The Firm and said that it wasn’t as good as the book was that the things that made it so appealing to my pubescent male mind had been systematically compromised by the mass-market economics of Hollywood...