Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tall, thrice-divorced bachelor hobnobs with the President (Bill Clinton is unlikely to turn down his calls since Ellison was one of his top individual donors in last year's election) and is friends with Jack Kemp, who once sat on his board of directors. Jeff Berg, the Hollywood power agent who represents clients like Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson, is a buddy. Michael Milken, the reclusive financier, is an intimate adviser. Ellison, friends will remind you, is the richest man in California...
...year Hollywood discovered sound. Any actor who could talk, any playwright who could write talk, was worth hundreds of thousands. But the man who would revolutionize movies with a talking mouse was having a hard time raising the $18,000 for his first talking picture--a thing with a mouse. To get his Steamboat Willie sound track recorded on the equipment owned by a con artist named Pat Powers, Walt Disney agreed to let Powers distribute his cartoons. Mickey Mouse was an instant star, but Disney saw little cash from Powers. From this he learned to trust no one. Walt...
...beginning May 11, 9:00 p.m. E.T., CBS) based on the author's best-selling 1996 novel, is here to remind us that the Mob functions no more or less rapaciously than any corporation or government, and at least its employees know a good prosciutto when they see one. Hollywood studios are run by vicious souls, the movie tells us; politicians are a meretricious and evil-thinking breed...
...will be a great show indeed if Michelle Yeoh is at the center of a Hollywood movie. That would be the toughest stunt any Hong Kong actress has pulled...
DIED. JEAN LOUIS, 89, Oscar-winning designer whose fluid fashions draped Hollywood's most mythic figures; in Palm Springs, California. Louis's rapport with his leading ladies (Marilyn Monroe reportedly introduced herself by disrobing) inspired such creations as Rita Hayworth's come-hither black satin gown in Gilda and the sequined formfitting dress that Monroe wore to serenade birthday boy (and President) John Kennedy...