Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baer denies that he was lobbied to put either chlamydia or rapid-detox on E.R. Chlamydia is a common problem and so, in Hollywood, is heroin addiction; one marquee actor is reported to have gone through ultrarapid detox just in time for this year's Academy Awards. In fact, says Baer, the idea for the detox episode came from a pediatric anesthesiologist invited by E.R. to help generate story lines...
...watchman had been inspired to act by seeing Schindler's List. Meili has traveled to Israel to accept a humanitarian award, to Berlin for interviews with German television and to Auschwitz for a weekend as the guest of survivors. His story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent" up front. As Andrew Decter, a New Jersey insurance broker who has taken the Meilis under his wing, explains, "He got starstruck, and we had to bring him back down to earth...
...should have been at the Brown Derby last week. Actually, these days it's just the Derby. Hollywood's old watering hole is now a swing club. That's '90s swing--Panama hats and cocktail dresses plus cell phones and plastic. Smoke and libido still hang in the air. So does the spirit of Sinatra. "Obviously," says Tammi Gower, one of the joint's owners, "Sinatra was the epitome of cool." On the night after the great man died, the Derby observed a moment of silence. Then Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers bit into...
...close cousin, tries to focus less on the style and more on the music itself. One swing group, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, currently has a Top 40 CD. Scotty Morris, 30, bandleader for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, another brisk-selling swing act, says his classmates at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood would play Sinatra records "nonstop." That was 10 years ago. Frank is still his hero. Says Morris: "Musicians have always loved Sinatra and will always love him." Duplicating him, though, is another matter...
...Where's The Beat?" shows just what the performers do best--it takes a sad story of loss, and portray it with a big smile to get the tragic point across with just enough irony. A young and talented kid, played by B. Jason Young, journeys through Hollywood looking for a place to display his talent. In one particularly biting moment, Shirley Temple is parodied as 'da Beat (Derick K. Grant) makes a large stretchable doll dance with Uncle Huck-A-Buck (Dominique Kelley) as she asks him questions like, "Why do I get paid more than you?" Eventually...