Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tabloid photographers will now be following the couple's every move. A marriage on the rocks isn't the sum total of Brown's problems. He has been arrested twice this year for battery and also awaits a court date for allegedly kicking a security guard in West Hollywood...
...Denzel Washington stands apart. At 40, he is one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars, earning $10 million for his next film, the military drama Courage Under Fire, co-starring Meg Ryan. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 1989 Civil War epic Glory. More important than achieving these milestones, however, has been to playing a variety of challenging and not race-specific roles. For every Malcolm X, in which he starred as the slain Muslim leader, there was a Philadelphia, in which he played a homophobic lawyer...
Would that it were. Hollywood films often wallow in bloodlust and sexual smirking--it's the Kingdom of Leer--but genuine eroticism is hard to find. Maybe Verhoeven is right when he says, "Americans have a problem accepting sexuality. American society is more impregnated with Christian beliefs." And to those who find the very idea of sex unholy, it may be as pointless to prefer the erotic to the lurid as to choose a call girl over a hooker. But Showgirls is cold, antierotic. It just ain't sexy; it's only...
...blame Verhoeven, the director of two sleek, inventive Hollywood fantasies (RoboCop, Total Recall), for making this movie--though we're surprised he can bear to watch it. The real culprit is Eszterhas, swami of the High Concept. He found Nazis in The Music Box and white supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After...
Written by a gay man and marketed to gay audiences, one would not expect the representation of gay people to be so dull and distorted. However, one should not be surprised. It is also marketed to straight America. Hollywood does not think that straight America wants to see deep, sexual, human gay people. Protest that perspective...