Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...names adorning the full-page letter in the International Herald Tribune guaranteed attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...such juggernauts as Basic Instinct and a brace of Rambos. Now it's scrounging around for old props. After the huge, expensive stinkball Cutthroat Island was wrapped, some items weremissing. Oddly enough, a cannon, some maps, a peg leg and one of GEENA DAVIS' outfits turned up in Planet Hollywood Helsinki, co-owned by the movie's director and Davis' spouse RENNY HARLIN (the one with longer hair than MATTHEW MODINE's). Carolco says they were removed from the set without permission. Harlin's people say the props were given to the director because they were damaged and Carolco knows...
...phenomenon sprang from the imagination of a single man (even Walt Disney needed help from the Brothers Grimm). Lucas' offices, as well as many of his filmmaking facilities, are located on Skywalker Ranch, 3,000 mostly pristine acres in the farther reaches of Marin County, 425 miles north of Hollywood. Given the comparative remoteness and Lucas' image in the press as an elusive personality, not to mention the reverential way in which his colleagues and employees often speak about him (one hears a lot of talk about what "George likes" and what "George wants" and how one must go about...
...20th anniversary simply by showing Star Wars in a few cities around the country in the style of an old-fashioned road show. But once Lucas saw how much work was going to be involved in restoring the film's deteriorated negative (it's not just movies from Hollywood's Golden Age that suffer from this problem), he decided, he says, to seize the opportunity--along with $15 million worth of financing for the whole trilogy, mostly from Fox--to go in and touch up sloppy special-effects shots that had always bothered him. "I was tired of people saying...
Back in 1977, long before politicians made careers out of demagoguing the issue of Hollywood's supposed lack of "family values," Lucas said his "main reason" for making Star Wars "was to give young people an honest, wholesome fantasy life, the kind my generation had." Today, as a divorced father of three children (two of whom he adopted on his own), Lucas takes seriously the notion that entertainers have an obligation to promote positive moral values in their work. He talks earnestly about what artists "teach" with their creations--and with a little prodding he even criticizes himself...