Word: hollywoodism
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...TiVo thought I would enjoy Boy Meets World, Moesha and an Olsen twins movie called To Grandmother's House We Go. I spent my entire Sunday afternoon using the special thumbs-up, thumbs-down button to try and set it straight. I gave thumbs-down to figure skating, Hollywood Squares, Judge Judy and The View. Yet when I came back from getting the laundry, I caught it taping another Boy Meets World. I went into a clicking rage, giving thumbs up to hockey games, The Man Show, Real Sex, Sex Bytes and any other show with the word...
Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...
...think it all started when some friends of mine and I saw Moulin Rouge at the end of the school year. Ewan “come what may” MacGregor, his smile beaming and eyes twinkling, bewitched me into thinking that Hollywood-style, their-eyes-met-across-a-crowded-room love, or at least its sweaty-knockin’-boots-meet-me-in-the-back-alley step-cousin lust, was waiting just around the corner. (At the intersection of “I will always love you” and “Me so horny...
With a giddy Hollywood-induced hope that would have been better suited for a pimple-popping pre-teen than yours truly, I began my info center job and eagerly awaited the special tour filled with 22-to-26-year-old male Oxford students who had jaunted over to the States on holiday and were in desperate need of a guided stroll around fair Harvard. Instead I got, and still get, the belligerent mother of two who won’t accept the fact that there is no super secret formula for admission to the College, or the frantic Hungarian businessman...
...bizarre spectacle - Kim traveled across Russia's far east on a train that included 21 Japanese-made armored carriages, with darkened windows, and then emerged for Soviet-style welcomes dressed in a black smock with sunglasses and his bouffant hairdo. He looked like a visiting Hollywood director, being welcomed by hundreds of Russian soldiers, and officials making speeches professing mutual friendship that sounded like they could have been written in 1975. The spectacle left even many Russian foreign policy experts gaping in disbelief...