Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Maher, President Nathan M. Pusey '28 gave Leary leave without pay after the lecturer left Harvard for Hollywood midway through the spring semester of 1963. Leary's contract with Harvard was due to expire at the end of the spring 1963 semester...
Independence Day is, of course, a blockbuster from Hollywood. It isn't being shown here, yet its promise overwhelms the presence of many intimate films from other countries. France, for example, makes beguiling little conversation pieces, like Ridicule and Comment je me suis dispute (ma vie sexuelle), a three-hour talkathon that plays like six consecutive episodes of a French Friends. Iran, of all places, is the hot new movie culture--Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh registered as the festival's most folk-artful charmer--while the once estimable cinemas of Japan, Eastern Europe and Latin America have gone into hibernation...
...Cannes still flourishes, it's because it is supported by Hollywood films and stars. For the world press, a star is by definition American--or in a pinch, English. So everyone ogles at the big parade: Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Mick Jagger, Kenneth Branagh, Sandra Bullock and Elton John. None of these worthies were showing completed films; they were on hand simply to bring luster to a festival where voyeurism is a vocation. Gawkers in evening dress could watch La Liz at a lavish dinner to benefit AIDS research, where she auctioned off a Robert Rauschenberg painting with...
...most improbable celebrity match of the '90s: Hollywood's pretty woman Julia Roberts and lizard-visaged country singer Lyle Lovett. Yet when they wed after a month-long, blinders-on courtship in 1993, Lovett's admirers were the ones to ask, What does he see in her? Wasn't he the more courtly, substantial, vulnerable of the two? After their bust-up 21 months later, the uncouple remained tantalizingly mum. But Lovett, a caustic songwriter, could be expected to have the last words...
...archaeology--pure fantasy constructs. And while this may sound like carping on my part, given that these are, after all, works of fiction, it's fair to point out that no scientist likes to see his field of study caricatured--all the more so when the caricaturists have taken Hollywood for millions of dollars in movie rights for what are pretty run-of-the-mill potboilers...