Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger world has tried to put into some kind of balance the feelings Tyson inspires: awe, admiration, pity, disappointment, fear and loathing. By the time the sportswriters, columnists and comics were done with him last week, the balance was tipped against him more completely than ever. At the Hollywood Wax Museum in Los Angeles, Tyson's effigy was moved from the Sports Hall of Fame to the Chamber of Horrors. He now stands near Hannibal Lecter, the carnivore from Silence of the Lambs. For a man undone by some indigestible thing within himself, maybe that's just the right spot...
...trombonist running out of breath and purpose. He cared little for the racking discipline of the Method; he would simply stand on his mark and stammer out his lines. He wore his renown comfortably, like a pair of overalls, and enjoyed as scandal-free a life as any top Hollywood star. "My husband," said Stewart's one and only wife Gloria, "is much too normal to be an actor." The man himself considered his job well done "if you can get through a film and not have the acting show...
...star in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, "but I still can't believe it. And I can't stand it." Now only Katharine Hepburn, Stewart's blithe siren in The Philadelphia Story, is left to exemplify the glamour and idealism of Hollywood in its golden...
Back then it took Hollywood a while to realize what kind of acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...
...those steamy summer weekends, when a battalion of bustling, big-budget Hollywood movies hits the theaters--and many of them tank. But don't feel sorry for those forlorn moguls. Just because a movie stumbles in the U.S. doesn't mean the rest of the world should be spared it. In fact, the voracious appetite for American celluloid in Europe, Asia and South America is turning many a domestic dog into a foreign blockbuster. Herewith a sampling of recent films that enjoyed just such overseas turnarounds...