Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the '20s, Chanel's social, sexual and professional progress continued, and her eminence grew to the status of legend. By the early '30s she'd been courted by Hollywood, gone and come back. She had almost married one of the richest men in Europe, the Duke of Westminster; when she didn't, her explanation was, "There have been several Duchesses of Westminster. There is only one Chanel." In fact, there were many Coco Chanels, just as her work had many phases and many styles, including Gypsy skirts, over-the-top fake jewelry and glittering evening wear--made of crystal...
Steven Spielberg's first films were made at a time when directors were the most important people in Hollywood, and his more recent ones at a time when marketing controls the industry. That he has remained the most powerful filmmaker in the world during both periods says something for his talent and his flexibility. No one else has put together a more popular body of work, yet within the entertainer there is also an artist capable of The Color Purple and Schindler's List. When entertainer and artist came fully together, the result was E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, a remarkable...
...awesome woman. Working in her office was a great glimpse of the total mayhem of Hollywood," Avni says...
Avni did everything from reading scripts to pawing through head shots while in Hollywood, but the varying demands of these jobs fit well with his unusual life at Harvard. No typical theater person, Avni took a job in consulting for the fall and is busy trying to decide whether to continue studying his academic love and undergraduate major: physics...
Appropriately, Avni says his favorite experience in Hollywood was the work he did with camera crews on movie sets, seeing precisely what it takes to put together a scene, frame by frame...