Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While many students struggled to sit through their end-of-year classes last Thursday, seven undergraduates entertained big-shot Hollywood alumni and munched on strawberries and cream at the famous Beverly Wilshire Hotel...
...estate in Punaauia, Tahiti. Cheyenne, as she was known, had tried to commit suicide three times before. She had lost hope again after a recent court decision denying her custody of her four-year-old son Tuki-whose father, Dag Drollet, was shot and killed at her father's Hollywood home in May 1990 by her half-brother Christian...
...everything comes out all right in the end, which is not exactly startling. What is startling is how well While You Were Sleeping recaptures the true spirit of the best kind of modern fairy tale--classic romantic comedy. This is something Hollywood has been trying hard, and failing miserably, to revive in recent years. Though this kind of comedy occasionally skitters toward the screwball-mistaken identity, preposterous coincidence, even the odd pratfall are all judiciously permitted--it's really a grownup form. It needs smart dialogue and plausibly eccentric characters (Michael Rispoli contributes a beaut to this...
Actor Jack Lemmon '47 discussed his acting experience from Harvard to Hollywood with a crowd of about 60 undergraduates in the Eliot House Library yesterday...
...they do provide us with an utter escape from this world of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Natural Born Killers" through 1930s Hollywood grace, glamour and fancy footwork. They do remind us of an era that perhaps never even existed, save in a small RKO studio in the age of the truly silver screen...