Word: hollywoodism
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...only thing in Hollywood more interesting than Owen Wilson's career may be Owen Wilson's nose. It's a wonder to behold: a twisting, swollen ski slope; a special effect that seems to expand and change angles with the light. He broke it first in ninth grade, then again playing intramural football at the University of Texas. Has he considered having it fixed? "I get bombarded with those questions," he says. "I must look like a freak, but if I were to change it I would get so much grief from my brothers...
Britney Spears possesses exactly two salient points and one asset worth discussing. She is perhaps not unique in Hollywood in this respect, but if her own chit-chat is to be believed, her latest album, Britney, is the ambitious product of her growing maturity and artistic integrity. Spears would have us believe that her burgeoning sexuality is part of a critically respected, yet popularly titillating career path dominated by Madonna for two decades. While certainly she deserves credit for setting such lofty goals, Britney falls so far short of its purported artistic achievement that it could well mark the defining...
...impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn to focus his message as well as he focuses his action, and continues to find such strong acting talent and to use film as a vehicle for illuminating society’s ills, we can expect the emergence of an significant Hollywood force. The Business of Strangers, like its director and writer, is not quite there yet, but Stettner’s next film could...
...both new and deja-voyeur. It picks up where such landmark films as Last Tango in Paris, The Devils, In the Realm of the Senses, The Last Woman and other sizzling studies of adult sexuality seemed to be leading movies in the '70s. That's not where they went. Hollywood went for the teen-boy market, while European films retreated into a sort of catatonic minimalism. Now--or, rather, finally--directors are again dramatizing, how human beings reveal their power, vulnerability, joy and desperation in their most intimate moments...
This scene contains hanky-panky the Hollywood solons would never allow, but it is more notable for its delicate juggling of flattery, force and debating skills; the boy is studying to be a lawyer. And all the time Anais watches, as if taking notes for the day (she hopes) when she too will have a man to play with, to treat her roughly, to ruin her. Fat Girl could be a compendium of Hollywood teen movies--it is by turns a story of sisterhood, a coming-of-age comedy and a horror tragedy--if it weren't so tres, tres...