Word: hollywoodization
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...very good at it. We don’t have school plays, but if there were to be one I would be the star.” Some students added that it was nice to be at a campus that they had only seen in Hollywood movies. “I’ve wanted to go to Harvard ever since I saw ‘Legally Blonde,’” said Briana D. Mcintosch, an aspiring lawyer who is also 13. “My mom wants me to go either to Harvard or to Hampton...
...ever before. While he's always been calm, he has, over the last 20 months, acquired a self-assuredness, a confidence that he lacked during that long summer in 2007 when Hillary Clinton appeared to be the inevitable nominee and his speeches fell flat. This may feel like a Hollywood finish, but if Obama wins, he will very quickly come down to earth: America will return to the sobering reality of an economic crisis and wars on two fronts. His words will still matter, especially in an Inauguration or State of the Union speech, but his legacy from then...
...Returning to the hotel in Kissimmee Wednesday night, the traveling press were surprised to find actor Jimmy Smits - who played a presidential candidate roughly based on Obama in the final season of the The West Wing. Smits had also been stumping for Obama that day, one of dozens of Hollywood stars hitting college campuses and coffee houses for Obama across the country. As one Obama aide describe it to me, they're "pulling out the big guns and holding nothing back...
...Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber at a rally in Ohio? The history of this expression can also be traced to a movie: Hello, Dolly, released in 1969 and never before now regarded as subversive. But perhaps it deserves a closer look. It starred Barbra Streisand, a notorious Hollywood lefty who also starred in The Way We Were, the 1973 weepie that glamorized frizzy-haired communists and left-wing agitators from New York City and derogated real Americans like handsome blond Robert Redford. In Hello, Dolly, Streisand plays a professional matchmaker who has her eye on Walter Matthau, playing...
...takeaway from this film, it’s that some things just shouldn’t go together. Kevin Smith should stick to convenience stores and apocalyptic storylines involving Alanis Morissette as God. Seth Rogen should continue writing and starring in his own films about pregnancy and potheads. And Hollywood and porn should go back to their own separate lives and stop fooling around with each other...