Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's the point. Thanks to Hollywood westerns, cowboy chic has worldwide appeal; John Wayne is the very image of the American to many Asians and Europeans. And U.S. beef has a reputation in many overseas markets for premium quality. So overseas buyers went looking for Link, rather than Link for them...
...stammering, crazed, speed-talking Hollywood producer DUSTIN HOFFMAN, left, portrays in the upcoming Wag the Dog looks oddly familiar. He not only uncannily resembles Bob Evans, he even more uncannily resembles the goofy portrayal of Bob Evans that Hoffman did as a goof while filming 1976's Marathon Man. The infamous improv scenes, which have been enjoyed in a few select home screening rooms throughout Hollywood, show Hoffman, right, in a bathrobe with slicked-back hair, big glasses, a stammer and a filthy mouth, pretending he is a ruined, emasculated Evans in 1996. And the President in 1996, according...
Bigness was, of course, an attraction of the actual ship. In the film, the ship company's boss says, "I wanted to convey sheer size." Cameron could be his spiritual heir. The man who made The Terminator for $6 million has become the high priest of Hollywood bloat. He is also the movies' mad toymaster: he keeps falling in love with an imposing machine (a cyborg, an alien, a submarine, a Harrier jet, an ocean liner) that he then spends great amounts of time and energy destroying...
...meeting was two years ago, on a street in Hollywood: Pam Grier, queen of ultraviolent "blaxploitation" flicks in the '70s, ran into Quentin Tarantino, king of ultraviolent indie cinema in the '90s. The director, it turned out, was a big fan. He even had a poster of Grier's 1973 movie Coffy up on his office wall. THE BADDEST ONE-CHICK HIT-SQUAD THAT EVER HIT TOWN! boasts the poster, which sports an illustration of a shotgun-wielding Grier in low-riding stretch pants and a revelatory bikini top. "I got an idea," Tarantino told Grier. "I want to write...
...series of sequels. It is not based on a comic book. It was not designed to spawn a vast array of toys, merchandising, video games and theme-park attractions. It is an earnest and heartfelt work. But the same voices that decry the formulaic commercialism of mainstream Hollywood product do not seem to applaud the studio heads who had the courage to back this unusual film...