Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell a new generation is due in Hollywood when actresses who used to play kooky nymphets start portraying earnest newspaper reporters. That's what will happen in Never Been Kissed, a comedy shooting in Los Angeles that stars Drew Barrymore as an aspiring journalist who goes undercover to write about--you guessed it--high school students. "I'm at an interesting place," explains Barrymore, 23. "I'm numerically and biologically young, but I feel so much older because I've lived a fast life. I've been in the working rat race my whole life too, and that always ages...
Barrymore made her first movie splash as the wide-eyed little girl who befriended E.T. 16 years ago, which qualifies her as a sort of cool elder sister for the new group of Hollywood teens. With a stream of increasingly grownup movie parts, she's not a bad role model. After a 1996 cameo in Scream and a perky co-starring role in The Wedding Singer, she stars in Ever After, a sweet feminist remake of Cinderella that opens this weekend, and plays a pregnant fast-food clerk in the quirky black comedy Home Fries, coming later this year...
...have always been as odd a match off the ice as they were perfect on it. Pasha is, well, flamboyant. She models herself after Marilyn Monroe, went through the torturous process of changing her name from Oksana to Pasha--Russian for passion--and has made no secret of her Hollywood dreams. Now, apparently, Evgeny has decided her virtuosity on the ice is not enough compensation for her tempestuousness off it. On July 19, at the end of an America-wide tour, he told Pasha that he had decided to skate with a rival, MAIA USOVA, left. At least he tried...
Well, frankly, you don't matter. To Hollywood, kids matter. They are the most avid movie patrons--nearly half go twice a month or more, double the rate for 25-to-34-year-olds--and there are more of them than ever before. "The teenage population is growing faster than any other segment," says Paramount executive Rob Friedman, "and their tastes are more sophisticated than they used to be." They go for hip variations on old themes, flocking to the two Scream films (each earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office) or to a canny thriller like...
...great drawback of Broadway is that its moments are fleeting; they float up to the rafters and disappear with the crowd. Hollywood's advantage, of course, is its immortality. In a hundred years, the plays and ballets of Jerome Robbins will be wisps of memory. But West Side Story (1961) will live forever. The moviemakers had taken Robbins's "Fancy Free" and etched it as On The Town in 1949; "West Side Story" he decided to do himself. Or nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director...