Word: hollywoodism
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...passed through a paradigm shift. Over the weekend, the President's man Karl Rove went to Hollywood to talk to producers about hearts and minds, and the propaganda reels that might be made--new stories, new heroes, new villains. It's not hard to imagine the movie treatments being hammered out on a thousand keyboards now: "It started as an ordinary September...
...enough time to re-read the first book in its entirety. While minor alterations have been made (less pivotal characters such as Peeves the Poltergeist have been eliminated), on the whole, Sorcerer’s Stone is one of the most precise book to movie translations to emerge from Hollywood in a long time...
...surprise, surprise! Hollywood marketers are shrewd. Wary of tainting the (so far) starry-eyed image of Harry as innocent youth, unblemished by hype, Warner Bros. is exercising an extremely tight rein on movie marketing—choosing only Coca-Cola as their global licensing partner. Despite the preponderance of Potter products in (and being snatched from) stores, the studio has also shielded Radcliffe and his cohorts from press and paparazzi—the confidentiality surrounding the cast and crew of Sorcerer’s Stone puts Kubrick’s and Spielberg’s top-secret A.I. to shame...
...seems that we’re afraid of bad taste, but I wouldn’t want an era of good taste,” said Guare, referring to recent self-censorship by Hollywood and Broadway. He referred specifically to composer Stephen Sondheim’s decision to postpone opening his show “Assassins” on Broadway...
DIED. JOHN SPRINGER, 85, fiercely protective, proudly star-struck Hollywood publicist who more often than not tried to keep his top-of-the-A-list clients, including Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Cary Grant, out of the news; in New York City. "Trust is what it's all about," he said of his job. "I feel my obligation is something like the seal of a confessional...