Word: hollywoodizations
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...large and responsive crowds in New Hampshire, Alexander sharpened his "compassionate conservative" pitch, promising to "get Washington off our backs, and us off our butts." If parents don't like their kids seeing trashy talk shows and R-rated movies on cable, he says, they shouldn't just blame Hollywood; they should "turn off the TV and read to your kids." He would abolish the Department of Education (a move he never mentioned when he was running the place) and return Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to the states. He wants welfare to be administered entirely...
...VIEWED BY MANY in Hollywood and on Wall Street as among the pre-eminent media minds of his generation, a man who built the Fox Network, mentored both Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and brought the world Saturday Night Fever and The Simpsons--for a man who has accomplished all that and made himself hundreds of millions of dollars in the process, Barry Diller sure acts as if he has something left to prove...
...empire he can call his own? Four years after he perplexed the entertainment industry by voluntarily resigning the chairmanship of 20th Century Fox, he could today be running any number of media conglomerates or resting on his laurels with a fat production deal somewhere--the traditional way in which Hollywood takes care of its own. Instead, at 54, Diller has chosen to put his credibility on the line and build his very own empire more or less from scratch. "This is either a worthwhile or worthless proving ground," he says, though it is not quite self-evident, of his efforts...
...Diller was named CEO of Paramount Pictures. With Eisner, whom he installed as president, Diller made it the most profitable Hollywood studio, year in and year out. He was considered a lock for the chairmanship of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company. Then he lost a power struggle and jumped ship for 20th Century Fox in 1984. His reason for subsequently leaving Fox in 1992 was straightforward: "It's not mine," he said at the time. "I'm both young enough and old enough to want to own my own store ... It's the one thing I haven't done...
...what people in Washington would call an entitlement, richly deserved and untouchable. He spoke of it with such youthful enthusiasm that I found myself wondering, just for a moment, whether there was any possibility at all that someone could hold off the ravages of age by repeated viewings of Hollywood movies at half price...