Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Garden of Good and Evil. However, he will direct the tale of a murder set in Savannah, Georgia. Producer Arnold Stiefel, who bought the screen rights for a modest $300,000 before John Berendt's book became a best seller, couldn't be happier: "It's good nobody in Hollywood has time to read...
...JOVI. He may be speaking prematurely. (He's only just started his second movie.) But, for now, films--and some music--are what Bon Jovi wants to make. After getting gentle reviews for his role in Moonlight and Valentino, he is playing the leading man, a big Hollywood star, in The Leading Man. "It's a stretch," insists Bon Jovi, who has been taking acting classes for five years. "The guy's such a chameleon." He plans to fit more movies around his music tours, but Sly Stallone can relax: Bon Jovi won't do action. "I watched too much...
...weeks after Larson's death and got an ecstatic reception. Critics hailed it as the breakthrough musical of the '90s. Theatergoers began streaming downtown, to the way-off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop; within a week, the show had sold out its entire run, through the end of March. Hollywood studios and record executives began calling, as did Broadway. By late last week, the producers were finishing up negotiations to transfer the show to a Broadway house in mid-April, just in time for the Tony nominations. "Rent belongs in front of as many people for as long as possible...
...have read her famous diary, perhaps visited her Amsterdam shrine or seen the Hollywood film that lionized her. We think we know Anne's story. And we do. We know it from the inside, from Anne's mind, from the blossoming spirit and lively imagination that she poured into her diary. We know which members of her caged circle she loved (her father Otto) and which she hated (the dentist Fritz Pfeffer). We have this remarkable girl's X ray. But Anne was no solitary saint; she was surrounded by helpers and victims. Many of them are still alive, bearing...
However, Fuentes' distate for Hollywood is a pretext for a larger commentary on the destructive devices of the United States as a whole. Fuentes always makes the distinction between the world of the "gringos" and his own, that of Mexico: "I looked at the sleeping Diana. She lived in the world of instantaneous gratification... A Mexican, no matter how much he travels the world, is anchored in a society of need." Fueled by a life of gratification, North Americans have an irrational but insatiable desire for upward mobility. According to Fuentes, they never experienced an equivalent of the Middle Ages...