Word: hollywoodization
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...traded spring break sun-worshipping for response papers and problem sets under the dreary early-April skies of Cambridge, the 14 young women of The Harvard Crimson Dance Team (CDT) fouetted their way to a fifth-place national finish in a band shell overlooking Daytona Beach. Performing to a Hollywood-themed medley—including Madonna’s “Hollywood,” Missy Elliott’s “Shake Your Pom Pom,” and Prima J’s “Rock Star”—at the National...
...major news outlets have been playing for months on end. If this race is as revolutionary and unpredictable as we keep being told it is, why leave its coverage to the lumpy, petit-bourgeois benchwarmers puttering around this or that Washington bureau? Only the master conjurers holed up in Hollywood studios and Manhattan high-rises, arbiters and alchemists of the American Zeitgeist, can save the ailing electoral beast.The problem is, there’s little left to be resolved. We’ve heard for weeks of the ‘mathematical impossibility’ associated with a Clinton victory...
...showed up Saturday night at, say, 6:30 p.m., you would have found two levels of pre-dinner cocktail parties, with most of the major news organizations having reserved a room so they could show off their success in luring B-listers from Hollywood or New York. The actress Jenny McCarthy wore a dress that prominently featured her breasts. The actor Johnny Knoxville looked dyspeptic. Lauren Conrad from MTV's The Hills had an entourage and foundation makeup. There was that lady from Desperate Housewives, that guy from Wedding Crashers and that other guy from Thank You For Smoking...
...night, it occurred to me that I had made a horrible mistake in choosing my profession. Then I fell into conversation with an actor and writer. I asked him how he thought the Washington, D.C., crowd compared to the type of party scene one would find in Hollywood. He was both delicate and perceptive, saying that people on the West Coast have a "social intelligence" that the Washington crowd seemed to lack...
...Burton, Agent for Child Actors, Dies at 77.” Intrigued, I read on to find that on April 5, she passed away as one of the most successful child talent representatives of the modern era. Burton’s is a story with no shortage of strange Hollywood connections.From TV stars of the 90s to actors known to today’s younger generations, Burton’s child actor rap sheet speaks for itself. Drew Barrymore, River and Joaquin Phoenix, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kirsten Dunst, Jaleel White, Hilary Duff, Kirk Cameron, Tori Spelling, and Corey...