Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frustrated Rebecca Howe on Cheers, affectionately calls her "the biker chick from hell." She will say and do anything for a laugh, as Americans learned in 1991, when she thanked her husband Parker Stevenson for "giving me the big one" as she picked up her Emmy for Cheers. Her Hollywood pals didn't know what to think recently when she publicly ribbed her buddy John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston. "I said John had puppies' feet hidden in his freezer and that his wife drank breast milk for breakfast," she says, shaking her head in disbelief at the silliness...
...personal life is equally fulfilling. She's in a thriving relationship with new flame James Wilder, 34, one of the ex-hunks from Melrose Place and her co-star in the yet unreleased film Nevada. She recently moved into his home in the Hollywood Hills, along with the two children she adopted with Stevenson (William True, soon to be 5, and Lillie Price, 3), and a menagerie of assorted cats, dogs and birds. "It's like Doctor Dolittle in the city," she says. "I can't believe a man would open his arms to this road show," she laughs...
Alley, now 46 (though she denies it), credits much of her good fortune to her participation in the controversial Church of Scientology. Growing up in Wichita, Kans., she dreamed of running off to Hollywood even though she was a daddy's girl (hence the large role of Robert Prosky, her dad on Cheers, as her fictional father in the new series). Sidetracked by cocaine and interior decorating, she dropped out of her acting studies at the University of Kansas. Then she read L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics, which Alley believes changed her life by making her take responsibility for herself...
...said he felt we were given an unfair hand in that country, and that he wanted to fix it. That did it. It was like--wow! You're kidding! Really? Well, all right." The schmoozing continues. A letter from Clinton was read at a tribute that a Hollywood arts group, the American Cinematheque, recently gave for Travolta. It praised him for having "created some of the most memorable characters...
This Methuselahan march up the demographic ladder also poses a challenge to the youth worshippers in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue who have grown accustomed to targeting audiences between the ages of 18 and 49. "We have the entire marketplace in a ridiculous state of denial, and it's costing companies, advertisers and marketers billions of dollars," says gerontologist Ken Dychtwald, founder of the California company Age Wave and a Pied Piper of marketing to those older than...