Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clark and Andreessen did, and today they find themselves riding the decade's giddiest economic bubble, counting their stock options and cutting deals with everyone from telephone companies to Hollywood. Virtually the entire data-intensive world--which is to say, virtually the entire world--has concluded that the Web is the future of communications, and is now retooling to stay in lockstep with Netscape (and vice versa: Netscape perpetually updates its browser to accommodate new Web applications). "The list of businesses being transformed," says Clark, includes "broadcasting, publishing, software, finance, shopping, entertainment services, consumer electronics...It's a massive, massive...
...springtime for off-Hollywood film, with maverick hits like Fargo, Flirting with Disaster, The Brothers McMullen--and Pulp Fiction by that spawn of the indies, Quentin Tarantino. Redford had a fine, leathery hand in all that too. In '85 some 50 independent films were made; last year there were 700. They earned $735 million at the U.S. box office, nearly triple the gross in 1992. Redford's festival created an aura that welcomed young directors and persuaded Hollywood to do the same. Says indie producer John Pierson: "Sundance totally dominates the independent landscape...
...would a hunky Hollywood star want to promote un-Hollywood films? "I've never been at ease with formula," says Redford, 58. "And around 1980 films were getting more formulaic, more like cartoons. Diversity was in danger. Helping independent film was a way to keep the industry broad." So in 1981 he created the Sundance Institute. It was host to powwows with indie and industry heavyweights, gave grants to some films and in February launched a Sundance cable channel. The institute has even gone global, inviting foreign talent to Utah...
...Disney films. In 1994 NBC aired a prime-time special on the newly opened Treasure Island resort and casino in Las Vegas that was produced by Stephen Wynn, who owns the place. ABC, CBS and NBC have all run prime-time specials on the making of such big Hollywood films as The Lion King and Wyatt Earp--specials produced by the studios releasing the films...
...stars in his latest film, a midsummer night's Tuscan dream called Stealing Beauty, which opens this week. Last week she finished shooting a film with the Irish director Pat O'Connor, who previously made Circle of Friends. And then there's That Thing You Do, well known in Hollywood as Tom Hanks' directorial debut, in which Tyler plays the groupie of a small-town band in the early '60s. This film wrapped earlier this year and will be out in the fall...