Word: hollywoodizations
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...saga. (The prequels end with the birth of Vader's son Luke, who fights and ultimately redeems him by the end of the current trilogy.) Which begs the question of Lucas' relationship with his own father, with whom he had a break when the budding director went off to Hollywood instead of enlisting in the family stationery store. ("George never listened to me. He was his mother's pet," George Lucas Sr. told TIME in 1983, eight years before his death. "George was hard to understand. He was always dreaming things up.") Obviously, fighting with your father over career paths...
...some of his other films as mere popcorn or adrenaline movies, thrilling and technically adept but soulless. This line of thinking also lays blame at Lucas' door for the even more soulless likes of The Rock, along with responsibility for the so-called blockbuster mentality that currently plagues Hollywood. By way of a response, his publicists have even compiled statistics showing that Hollywood's ratio of "art films" to "blockbuster-type" movies has actually increased since...
...that face ought to earn Thornton, who also wrote and directed Sling Blade, an Oscar nomination or two next week. The tale of Karl's return home after 25 years in a mental hospital, and of the awful temptations to repeat his crime, has already turned the actor into Hollywood's guy du jour. Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise are vocal fans of the film, and Thornton's fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton is expected to screen it at the White House soon. A perennial supporting player, Thornton is now getting fat roles in A pictures...
...Chicks in Zombietown?), playing bad ole boys and inbred rubes with names like Coldface, Lightning and (twice!) Billy Bob. "I was nominated by Joe Bob Briggs for a Drive-In Academy Award as 'the whiny husband,'" the actor says while lunching on "vittles" at a Wolfgang Puck cafe in Hollywood. "I didn't win, but it was absolutely an honor to be nominated...
...Shell NdegeOcello, she is creating music that expands the boundaries of conventional R. and B., with lyrics that explore social issues (as Marvin Gaye's used to do), melodies that draw readily from jazz and blues, and wandering song structures that go beyond the standard verse-chorus-verse format. Hollywood has taken note. The sound track to the upcoming movie Love Jones (starring Larenz Tate) has a neo-soul theme. So far neo-soul hasn't demonstrated huge commercial appeal. However, through canny marketing, Badu's CD, due out Feb. 11, has generated anticipatory buzz; and her first single...