Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This tale of a small-town high school teacher (Kevin Klive) whose life turns upside down when he's declared gay by a former student-turned-star (Matt Dillon) constitutes Hollywood's own coming-out comedy. It's therefore a bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and squanders a cast that includes Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds and Bob Newhart. But Kline manages to rise above the plodding humor, as in his show-stopping dance scenes, and Selleck is terrifically funny as the sleazy, sardonic, faintly Mephistophelean tabloid reporter who dogs his footsteps. --Lynn...
...professor, Brustein worked with students who have since become famous Hollywood stars. He taught Sigourney Weaver, Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep...
...alliance unholy enough by Marx's standards, ranging from Gary Bauer of the conservative Family Research Council to Adam Yauch of the less-than-conservative Beastie Boys. That pair's political polarity was fleshed out by a diverse collection of exiled Tibetans, Chinese dissidents, and of course, Hollywood movie stars. "This is not a cuddly new China," thundered Richard Gere to an appreciative crowd...
...Hollywood police chief Rick Stone, who says he has skimmed Walsh's book, maintains that his department never had the carpet samples to begin with because the car was impounded by another law-enforcement agency. Stone says there is no evidence to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Toole murdered Adam. Both Toole and his close friend, convicted mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas, were notorious, he says, for confessing to crimes they didn't commit...
Always more interested in making a difference than in making a movie, the Oscar-winning actress briefly returned to Hollywood to narrate a film on depression (her mother committed suicide when Fonda was 12) to be shown at a fund-raising lunch this week at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. At the lunch, other celebrities such as Mike Wallace and Liza Minnelli hope to start doing for depression what Elizabeth Taylor did for AIDS...