Word: hollywoodism
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...parking lot was Tom Arnold, chomping on his perennial cigar and calling everyone "buddy." There is no such thing as a truly rhetorical question in Hollywood, so his response to my "How are you?" yielded the past weekend's grosses for his latest film, "Exit Wounds." Arnold's reply was quite the norm in this town. After all, you are what you gross. (For what it's worth, he actually looked pretty healthy...
...inquired if I knew that I was in the presence of a legend?! As it happens, I recognized the figure as '60s/'70s musician Dave Mason from previous encounters. The woman, one Laurie Henry (who described herself as his publicist), then proceeded to give me that purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with one of the co-founders of the legendary rock group Traffic! (This was a stretch, and one of 12-seater-limo proportions!) Her final statement...
...Hollywood jigsaw puzzle was complete. It was time to go home...
...anti-romantics of the Sixth Generation renounce glamour. They eschew the star quality that marks Hollywood and Hong Kong; indeed, they often do without professional actors. Their films look less like paintings than placards. No stately settings, no echoes of the fine arts, no images that pop your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like...
...going into an election in Sweden and there was a public debate about the failure of the school system," Wegelius says. "We thought, what if we could take the storytelling powers of the media world and marry that with the best academic content using new interactive digital technology - take Hollywood and Stanford and move them to Silicon Valley? Maybe we could create a completely new learning environment...