Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood is abuzz with rumors that former superagent and Disney president Michael Ovitz plans to start a talent-management business. He would presumably bring along former clients, including Sydney Pollack, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Kevin Costner. The fact that most on that list are over 50 has apparently not been lost on Ovitz, who is said to be courting Brad Grey (who declined) and hot young Hollywood manager Rick Yorn, of Industry Entertainment. Yorn represents Leonardo DiCaprio, for one. Other clients include Cameron Diaz and Claire Danes...
...script goes, Clinton can make some more contrite comments and the country can move on. There's just one problem: Those in the GOP who are already calling for Clinton's resignation might simply ignore the censure -- and move ahead with impeachment anyway. Not everyone likes a Hollywood ending...
...true, the made-in-Hollywood plot is sure to go down in history next to the legendary CIA bid to blow up Castro with an exploding cigar. Can Arafat confirm it? Not likely -- the Palestinian leader has seen way too much skullduggery in his time for this to stick out. "There were several attempts to assassinate him," says a PLO security aide, "but I don't recall an incident with a radio...
...Although about 20 percent of Capetonians are Muslim, Islamic fundamentalism has traditionally been limited to a handful of (mostly) student activists. (The city's Muslim clergy, for example, showed no hesitation in condemning the Planet Hollywood bombing.) Fundamentalists were instrumental in creating People Against Gangs and Drugs (PAGAD), a vigilante organization that launched a war on crack dealers -- with pipe bombs as the weapon of choice. (Initial reports suggest a similar device was used in Planet Hollywood.) PAGAD has fought the police too, which is why most of the fundamentalists are well known to local lawmen. As if to make...
Cape Town, my hometown, is a little like the pub in "Cheers" -- a place where everybody knows your name. And that may not be a good thing for the people who bombed a locally owned Planet Hollywood restaurant in the city's tourist-oriented Waterfront. Rounding up the usual suspects shouldn't prove too difficult for the police -- when a representative of a group styling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression called a local radio journalist to claim responsibility, the journalist is reported to have potentially recognized the caller's voice. It's that small a town...