Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring of his junior year, Ron Avni '98 decided to take the semester off to see what Hollywood had in store for him. With no real connections or concrete plans, he hopped into a car with his best friend from Yale, and the two drove to Los Angeles together...
While in L.A., Avni accepted a number of odd jobs, the most exciting of which, he says, was working for Lynda Obst, a bigname Hollywood producer whose credits include The Fisher King and Sleepless in Seattle...
...standards of today's Hollywood, The Truman Show is unusual in that it has many levels of meaning. In one sense it is an allegory about the ways in which a performer can be imprisoned by the demands, even love, of an audience. If you are a movie comedian who is graduating to more substantial roles but is still most famous for having made teenage boys laugh by pretending to talk with your buttocks, this is an allegory to which you can surely relate. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian...
...vulnerability. Except for Mom and a couple of wives, has anyone before thought of the Carrey face as beautiful? In this film it surely is. That's star quality and craft in tandem, the gift of recapturing innocence even as the movie recaptures the ability of the best old Hollywood films to work as metaphor and magic. Together, Carrey and The Truman Show leave the viewer with a spectral feeling that somehow warms: the shiver of radiance...
...Torn have been doing some of the best acting on television. When Tambor quietly boasts in one episode, "I've lost upward of 14 pounds," a whole life seems to support the line. Torn's Artie is an amazing creation, a veteran of an earlier, Chivas-fueled Hollywood generation who cajoles and bullies Larry but can look at him with a momentary expression of pure protectiveness and even love...