Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long the source of American onscreen drama, Los Angeles has lately become the stage for the nation's most gripping real-life dramas as well. The sort of narratives that Hollywood studios, in their quest for blockbuster profits, have almost abandoned--complex moral tales of actual human beings facing the ultimate issues of love and loss, rage and separation--have moved from the sound stages onto the streets. Beginning with the taped beating of Rodney King in 1991 (by far the most important footage to come out of L.A.'s image factory that year) and continuing through the O.J. Simpson...
...only talked the talk of fatherhood, he walked the walk. Ennis Cosby was not a brat. He was a teacher. Now it's his father who'll have to be one. Bill Cosby has a new role as a model of loss, a paragon of violent bereavement. In Hollywood, privileged, unreal, incredible Hollywood, where imagination transforms reality, reality is taking the upper hand. It's as though the gods of drama have ordained that our entertainers must now act out America's most awful true-life conflicts, no longer just its escapist fantasies...
...shots operatic, complex. Shakur also serves as his own elegist. 'All the things we talked about' he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, 'things she wanted to do -- then she ups and dies. I don't wanna go out like that.' With Shakur?s death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. GRIDLOCK'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...
SENTENCED. HEIDI FLEISS, 31, "Hollywood Madam"; to 37 months in jail; for tax evasion, laundering profits from her call-girl business and conspiring to hide her crimes; in Los Angeles...
...what he called a new era and a new land. Cannon fire punctuated the applause that followed as some 250,000 people withstood near-freezing temperatures on the Mall to witness this celebration of American self-government. Though this Inauguration was a smaller, less lavish affair than Clinton's Hollywood-style blowout in 1993, the crowd seemed jubilant, buoyed by the gospel choir, Jessye Norman's powerful rendition of "America the Beautiful," and the verse of Arkansas poet Miller Williams. During the day that is set aside every four years to celebrate Democracy's peaceful transition of power, tensions that...