Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...David Frost to David Letterman. He commandeered the world press to promote the launch of Windows 95. He defied government probes of his finger-in-the-eye business practices, even as he was leveraging his control of computer software to edge his way into banking, retailing, interactive television and Hollywood. His net worth ballooned to nearly $15 billion, making him the richest self-made man on the planet...
...that participated when Dole won in 1988. Reed's goal is for Dole to attract about one-fifth of that constituency, which he believes will be enough to give Dole 40% of the overall vote, a knockout blow. That's the chief reason Dole attacks what he believes are "Hollywood's nightmares of depravity" whenever he visits the state. And it helps explain why Dole's new 30-second television ad, which promises tax cuts worth "$330 million for Iowa families," touts a "conservative agenda for change." Last week Dole burnished his conservative credentials by signing up Marlene Elwell...
...APOLLO 13 Director Ron Howard and protean star Tom Hanks celebrate the virtues of community--ingenuity, patience, humor--with such fidelity and drama that the ill-fated 1970 moon shot becomes a triumph for Hollywood on its best behavior...
...SHORTY A movie-mad mobster (dreamy, incisive John Travolta) reinvents himself as a movie mogul. He's a real shark chewing up Hollywood's rubbery simulacrums while helping some bottom feeders rise to the top in Barry Sonnenfeld's jaunty, well-acted comedy of bad manners...
...Sense and Sensiblity," a film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, received six Golden Globe Awards nominations, and the romantic comedy "The American President" captured five, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday. "The Golden Globes are the most telling harbingers of Oscar success," says film critic Richard Corliss. "They are influential because the foreign press tries to pick the most popular candidates, rather than the best." Corliss says that in many ways the Golden Globes Awards program is a more popular event with people in Hollywood than the Academy Awards. "They try to get the most famous names...