Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, Dole has tried to allay conservatives' doubts about his convictions with lunges this spring to the right on gun control and his attack on Hollywood. He reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections...
...contemplates the race against Dole, the Clinton camp is not expecting much bounce from the generation gap. "These things don't mean much," says a veteran Clinton adviser. "Only a month ago, everyone was saying that Dole was a genius for his attack on Hollywood. Now he's sagging? I don't buy it." Dole's advisers have nonetheless been ruminating about how to address the issue of his age and health; three months ago, they decided it should be addressed early and candidly, both to pre-empt his critics and to ensure that any future health alarms...
BRITISH ACTOR HUGH GRANT NEEDN'T fret about being the naughty boy of the week [People, July 10]. The spectacle of an African-American hooker caught in a sex act with a wealthy, white rising star is a Hollywood press agent's dream come true. The bottom line: "Please spell my name correctly, H-U-G-H G-R-A-N-T.'' FRED GERHAUSER San Carlos, California Via America Online...
Crimson: What led you to write your bestselling Hollywood expose Hollywood Babylon...
Anger: I was living in Paris in the '60s and I told some stories I knew about Hollywood tragedies and scandals to some friends, and they'd never beard of these stories, so they encouraged me to put these in book form Hollywood reacted to the book surprisingly benignly. I've never been sued by any of the celebrities I wrote about except for the Gloria Swanson...