Word: hollywoodizations
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HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD...
...when the Clintons spent a lot of time palling around with the likes of Barbra Streisand and, in the case of the President, being attended by a Beverly Hills stylist, they came across as parvenus rather than Kennedyesque sophisticates--and were attacked far more fiercely for sucking up to Hollywood than the Kennedys and Reagans ever were. None of us wants our own class anxieties magnified by the White House...
...truth, it's hard to be a trendsetter when your tastes are more or less identical to those of tens of millions of your countrymen. Apres-governing, Bill Clinton enjoys the same kind of lite-FM music (Kenny G, Judy Collins), mainstream Hollywood movies (action pictures) and middle-class recreation (jogging and golf) beloved by suburban baby boomers coast to coast. George Bush--a man who will probably go down in history as the last President to know what yar means--was a comparative hep cat with his idiosyncratic zest for pork rinds and cigarette boats...
...holidays get near, Hollywood gets the glums. For Christmas, it gives moviegoers a hair shirt: severe, serious films angled more for Oscar consideration than for Yuletide joy giving. Remember Nixon, Georgia, Othello in '95? This season, with few Academy Award contenders emerging in the first 10 months, studios will come down with a bad case of good intentions...
Gibson was brought to Harvard by a joint effort of the Learning from Performers program and the Graduate School of Education's Arts in Education concentration. Law School alumnus and Hollywood screenwriter Ken Lipper was also involved with the arrangements for his visit