Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could endure the American political circus and not get cranky doesn't deserve my vote. Further proof for this 26-year-old that the Bradley revolution is real is that Bradley is not only "The Man Who Could Beat Gore," he is, quite simply, the Man. JOSEPH BEYER North Hollywood...
...Webster Groves senior Rob Greenhaw reaches the Hollywood Video cash register, he recognizes classmate Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, fancied up in her white-ruffled tuxedo shirt, black patterned vest, and bow tie. Rob hands his video selection to Elizabeth, who scans it in, smiles and asks mischievously, "Simon Birch?" Rob, defensive, replies, "It's supposed to be good...
...seeing any more customers, Elizabeth grabs an armful of freshly returned cassettes and begins to stow them. "Putting the videos away is so monotonous," she says. But she is making $5.90 an hour and claims her work here "is really easy." Between Hollywood Video and nearby Kraus Farms Equestrian Center, where she teaches horseback riding, Elizabeth works 40 hours a week. This year she plans to earn $14,400--nearly what her mother makes as a bank teller...
...finished by 8. On Saturdays she puts in 11 hours at Kraus Farms, a job she keeps as much to ride horses as to earn extra cash. Sunday is her "hell day": she starts at Kraus Farms at 8 a.m., teaches until 5 p.m., grabs some food, drives to Hollywood Video and works there from 6 until 11 p.m. "I'm sure I'm sacrificing my health," Elizabeth says, "but I'm actually doing better in school than I ever have...
...likable in a bland sort of way, he doesn't have the necessary range to support the story. It's of little consequence however-even if the two actors had clicked, there's not enough material to work with. Three to Tango is certainly watchable but it's the Hollywood equivalent of an assembly-line product-a by-the-numbers creation with too much surface value and not enough heart...