Word: hollywoodism
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...Wide streets curve around British colonial mansions. Bogyoke Market (great handicrafts, particularly lacquerware) sits beside animposing Victorian rail station. Downtown is filled with Italianate architecture covered in tropical mold. Near Trader's Hotel, cinemas have been allowed to reopen, offering plush 1950s-style seating and the latest releases from Hollywood for the period price of 25 cents...
...name's the first clue: Bloodshy's not the average Swedish pop producer. Born Christian Karlsson, he took his new name from an old Hollywood western whose title he can't recall. He's got a vaguely Jersey City accent. And his musical taste takes in everything from hip-hop - as a rapper, Bloodshy toured with the Fugees - to hard rock - Marilyn Manson is in his CD player...
...trend has quickly spread from Hollywood to the heartland. According to the latest Department of Health and Human Services survey on drug abuse, about 1.5 million people started taking prescription painkillers for "nonmedical" purposes in 1998--nearly three times the number who started in 1990. "There are two reasons that people are abusing prescription pain medications," says David Rolston, a program director at Santa Monica's Clare Foundation rehab center. "They can be used as supplements to street opiates like heroin, and there isn't the same stigma associated with them...
...Come June, would-be tomb raiders will see all of this and more when the nearly $100 million Hollywood version of the game hits the big screen, carrying Paramount's bid to cash in on moviegoers' newfound fascination with female action heroes. A hit could generate a succession of sequels, just the way Bond has. But the history of video-game transfers from the computer screen to the big screen is dismal. Remember "Wing Commander," starring Freddie Prinze Jr.? How about "Super Mario Bros." with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper? Probably not, or at least not fondly. Hard-core game...
...Didn't "girls" used to be a dirty word? To today's in-charge Hollywood woman, it's le mot du jour. "We're very girlie," says Nancy Juvenon, Barrymore's partner in Flower Films, which will produce a remake of the Jane Fonda sex sci-fi spoof "Barbarella," with Barrymore in the title role. (Flower has three projects in the works; that makes Barrymore, 26, a baby mogul, or mo-girl.) Now the un-chic phrase, the F-word, is feminism, because it connotes a starchy righteousness. "A bad thing about old-style feminism," says Amy Pascal, the Columbia...