Word: hollywoodizations
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...says. He helped a raft of local Democrats hone their positions but found that policy alone didn't fire his engines. "I wanted to find some way to connect issues with electability," he says. He teamed up with pollster Richard Dresner, who Morris says did some work for Hollywood studios, asking audiences which blurb made them want to see the next James Bond movie and which of three alternate endings they preferred. Morris had an idea: "Let's do the same thing for politicians." And then he met Bill Clinton...
...once you pass 50. BARBRA STREISAND has a new beau--and he's even from her generation. He's JAMES BROLIN, 56, the hirsute hunk of Marcus Welby, M.D. and Hotel. The two were introduced at a party given by Streisand's onetime hairdresser-lover turned Hollywood mogul Jon Peters, according to Variety's old-time celeb columnist Army Archerd. For a Streisand beau, the twice-divorced Brolin is pretty low profile (remember Andre Agassi, Don Johnson, Peter Jennings and that guy who guest-stars on Friends, Elliott Gould?). It's probably only coincidence that this news broke just weeks...
...tracked 75 individuals who have contributed to Clinton's various campaigns or, since 1992, to the Democratic Party. They have all been rewarded with a stay in the White House, most of them in either the Lincoln Bedroom, right, or the Queen's Bedroom. Among the donors are such Hollywood luminaries as Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw ($236,500, Plus $44,850 from his companies), Barbra Streisand ($81,500), Chevy Chase ($55,250), Tom Hanks ($5,250), Richard Dreyfuss ($3,850) and Mary Steenburgen ($2,000). But the top five are more than just famous...
GRANT, CARY GRANT The world's suavest man was a spy in Hollywood for the British government, according to a Cambridge University professor. His mission: to root out Nazi sympathizers...
...Hollywood's Golden Age--around the time Al Pacino was born, and Eugene O'Neill was writing his short play Hughie--nearly all movie actors came from the stage. They had voices then, and a glamour that could penetrate both the footlights and the kleig lights. Yet few stars of the '30s and '40s returned to the theater when they and it were in their prime...