Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were stories of survival too improbable for Hollywood. After a twister ripped off the roof of Steve Mitchell's house in the Flamingo Lakes subdivision near Kissimmee, Mitchell found his 8-year-old son still sleeping safely--and soundly--in his room. There were, of course, tales of tragedy as well. Five-year-old Ashley Himes was the sole survivor after a tornado ripped apart her family's triple-wide mobile home in Sanford, in Seminole County. Her mother Penny Hall, 21, her mother's fiance Kevin Taylor, 23, and her grandparents Edward and Debra Hall were all killed...
...BERLITZ FOR SQUARES Readers baffled by hipster lingo, whether it be Hollywood tough-guy speak or Haight-Ashbury hippie cant, know they can count on TIME for a translation...
...beard,' in Hollywood parlance, is a man employed by a male star to accompany him when he appears in public with a woman not his wife. Sometimes female stars use them too. A 'hunker' is somebody kept on the payroll to know baseball scores, send out for coffee and strike matches on." --Aug. 29, 1955, from a footnote to a cover story on Frank Sinatra...
TIME's story on the Hollywood Free World Association v. the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals indicates no editorial preference for either organization but reveals in comic style an anti-Hollywood bias. We film-makers realize our community is a gorgeous subject for satire. We grant, or anyway most of us do, that we are the world's funniest people. You can write more jokes about us than you can about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that...
Well-fed TIME feels that the public should be kept informed about Hollywood politics, from soup to nuts...