Word: hollywoodism
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...David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, epic pictures with "bigger-than-life heroes, bigger-than-life villains." In 1967, The Graduate, with its Simon and Garfunkel songs, showed him how to wed pop movies with pop music. In 1970, after a brief career in advertising, Bruckheimer moved to Hollywood. As a fledgling producer, he put Blondie on the sound track of American Gigolo. He chose Faith Hill for Pearl Harbor because "it's an all-American movie, and she's an all-American artist...
...attack. Only one, 1970's Tora! Tora! Tora!, sought to be painstakingly faithful to the facts--no love story add-on--and for this it paid dearly, and is remembered as one of the great big-budget turkeys of all time. Pearl Harbor, banking on a different fate, is Hollywood, not history, at heart. Nothing wrong with that, but it is good to set the record straight on a few things before they become part of the accepted story...
...parts - the first, in black-and-white, a notebook of visual and verbal provocations. ("The question isn't whether man will survive but whether he deserves to.") The second part, shot digitally in carnival colors, concerns an old couple whose distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven Spielberg and his film Schindler's List. "Mrs. Schindler was never paid," one character notes. "She's living in poverty in Argentina." Ah, that Godard: he is always serious, always impish. He lives...
...younger brother introduced me to a new way to harass fellow passengers. On the ride in from Los Angeles International Airport, as he whizzed through traffic with my husband and me in tow, he suddenly began barking like a G-rated Tourette's sufferer: "Entertainment." Pause. "Restaurants." Pause. "Hollywood." Pause. Bleary-eyed from jet lag after our flight from Hong Kong, my husband and I exchanged confused glances. "Call!" Eric bellowed. The routine repeated itself until Eric pulled up at a trattoria moments before closing...
...tall and funny-looking and had the kind of face that casting directors have trouble with," Binger says. "His looks prevented him from having a better career in Hollywood...