Word: hollywoodizations
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...Everywhere I went I was the first one to do this or that," Kuehl, a 1978 graduate of Harvard Law School, told a caucus-hosted audience of about 25 last night. She recounted a life story that began in Hollywood and now centers in the California State Assembly in Sacramento...
Included in the biographical notes on the writers anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1997 are brief commentaries concerning the inspiration for their works. Some are purely anecdotal--Robert Bausch's detailing how a conversation about childhood bullying became the genesis for the bitingly funny "Nobody in Hollywood"--but most are insightful glimpses into the writers' imaginations, oftentimes offering prose that is as strikingly poetic as that found in their fiction...
Thus it is that "Scud: The Disposable Assassin," an independent comic written and drawn by cartoonist Rob Schrab, is one of the latest comics to emerge from the comics underground into the glare of Hollywood's scrutiny. Creator Schrab attributes Scud's success to what he calls its multimedia appeal and its "surrealistically" funky style--both of which were probably factors in drawing Stone's attention in the first place...
...that time Damon had taken steps to ensure that Hollywood would take notice of more than his acting. With Stallone-like hubris, he and best friend Ben Affleck--another hot actor, who starred in Chasing Amy and grew up two blocks away from Damon--wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting, based on a play Damon had started writing as a Harvard student. (He still has two semesters to go for his degree.) Damon and Affleck attached themselves to the project as stars. The script--about the struggles of a young working-class math genius in South Boston--sold...
...abroad, principally to New York, where the art market continued to function even as fighting raged in Europe. One painting cited by the U.S. Treasury, Van Gogh's The Man Is at Sea, was apparently slipped out of France by a New York dealer who then sold it to Hollywood idol Errol Flynn for $48,000. "The paintings came to America because for more than 10 years during and after the war there was no place else to sell them," notes Willi Korte, a consultant on Holocaust losses to the Senate Banking Committee...