Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Lemmon's big success seemed to come out of Hollywood, he never forgot his love for the theater...
...movies, Lemmon often worked with director Billy wilder and actor Walter Matthau, two Hollywood friends...
...falling. ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses, by contrast, looked a little battered during an interview last week, taking long, contemplative pauses before answering even seemingly simple questions. There was the weight of the world in those pauses--or, just as burdensome, the weight of a relentless Hollywood lobbying campaign against her, a stream of rumors that after a season of dismal ratings, she'll soon...
...very public ordeal of Jamie Tarses is a cautionary tale that could play out only in Hollywood, where bright young executives are thrust from gotta-have-her to you're-outta-here without pausing at that crucial intermediary stop: Who is Jamie Tarses, and what has she done to deserve this? At 33, she's the youngest person--and the first woman--ever to run the entertainment division of one of the Big Three networks. Nearly a year ago, ABC hired her away from NBC, where she had gained fame for overseeing the development of such hits as Friends...
...unfair to blame Tarses for ABC's bad season, since virtually all the shows the network aired were in the works before she arrived. Still, that hasn't stopped the Hollywood boo birds. She has been criticized for everything from poor scheduling during the May sweeps to giving only grudging approval to the network's one mid-season success, the Dan Aykroyd sitcom Soul Man. (Tarses admits she had problems with a first draft of the script but insists she was a solid backer of the show by the time it was finished...