Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vicious, smooth-as-snake-oil director of a theater troupe in postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. But it is the other, lesser performance in "Nine Months" that showcases Grant in the role Hollywood wants: Movie Star. The film, which tracks a child psychologist who hates children and his wife from pregnancy through delivery, has a cleverness that is as irresistible as it is predictable. Both films, says Corliss, should make the public forget all about Grant's misadventures. "The odds are that moviegoers...
...THREE: Hurley appears publicly in a chin-up mint green suit, and later releases a statement saying she's "bewildered and saddened." Consensus in Hollywood: Grant's career is far from over. "He can work for me anytime," says Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein. Day's Big Rumor: Hurley will be forced to choose between Lauder and Grant...
...roll students. The real tough guys are fellows named Semel and Pollock and Roth; their battlefield is the summer calendar; they show their guts by slotting their big pictures to open in just the right week in hopes of killing the competition. This is the art of war, New Hollywood-style...
...skill to make majestic melodrama plausible. As for the facetiousness, Rob Schneider sweats arsenals of ammunition as Dredd's sarcastic sidekick. But the effect is redundant since Sly is his own comic relief. By now Stallone has become a symbol for all that is goofy and grandiloquent in Hollywood's live-action summer cartoons. The hormone that courses through his movie veins could be called preposterone...
President Clinton,seeking middle ground on a charged presidential campaign issue,backed ratings systems and a "technological fix" to let parents -- rather than Hollywood -- keep broadcast sex and violence away from the eyes and ears of children. "Most of us believe there'stoo much indiscriminate violence, too much indiscriminate sex,too much callous degradation of women and sometimes of other people in various parts of our media today," the President told a family-values conference in Nashville. Clinton's solution: the "V-chip," an electronic circuit that would allow parents to block violent or otherwise objectionable material with remote controls...