Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's no mistaking Hollywood's sudden urge to outfox the mouse. Anastasia is the first in a salvo of all-animated features from three deep-pocketed Disney rivals: Fox, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks SKG. The next few years will see the biggest splurge of cartoon features ever. But after the exclamation point come the question marks. Are there ways to make popular animated films that don't slavishly follow the rules Walt and the boys made up in the 1930s? Are studios jumping on the toon trolley just as the form has shown signs of losing its commercial luster...
...make The Prince of Egypt not like Sunday school but powerful and fun. "If you're a disbeliever," says a crew member, "you can see it as a fairy tale." DreamWorks then moves from the mountain to the anthill for a computerized comedy, Antz, with the voices of many Hollywood familiars (Woody, Meryl, Sharon...
...late 1950s, he led an A-list social life but was a B-list producer, making The Boys in the Band, The Panic in Needle Park and the Elizabeth Taylor flop Ash Wednesday. "I hated Nick in the old days," says Sue Mengers, the most powerful agent in Hollywood at the time. "I thought he was superficial and arrogant." Dunne would agree...
...says. "You can't tell a star or director what to do. I wish I had had that kind of power. He uses it as a convenient excuse." Asked if people gloated over Dunne's fall, Mengers says something even worse: "There was no talk about Nick. People in Hollywood only talk about you if you are successful...
...lawsuit filed Friday, Murphy claims he has been unable to work since Tarantino punched him in the face and head last month at a West Hollywood restaurant. The fight was sparked by comments Murphy made about Tarantino in the book "Killer Instinct," written by "Natural Born Killers" co-producer Jane Hampshire, the lawsuit claimed...