Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fare: last week's schedule featured Under California Stars, a 1948 Roy Rogers western (Trigger is captured by horse thieves) and The Day of the Triffids, a 1963 British sci-fi film about man-eating plants. Not that Lighthouse TV will ever be confused with hbo; scenes enlivened by Hollywood staples like sex and alcohol are deleted, and voice-over commentaries interrupt American movies to criticize U.S. "oppression" of blacks or to point out that "in the real world, Americans don't always win." But the West wins small victories on Hizballah screens. "We use Western classical music with most...
...Roan Inish" is saved by its visual beauty and by the efforts of the cast. Jeni Courtney as Fiona brings an adult seriousness to her role which is at once amusing and disarming. Lally and Colgan are charming, though their characters are the sort of life-size leprechauns Hollywood seems to think are roving Ireland. Characatures like these are balanced by the dark and mysterious performance of John Lynch, as Fiona's adult cousin, who is thought mentally deficient but who has an uncanny rapport with both the natural and supernatural worlds...
While I don't doubt that somewhere in America a crowd of rowdy teenagers cheered at Mr. Blonde's torture (in much the same way that past generation cheered at the success of Hollywood's great train robbers) or that people may laugh (usually) out of (discomfort) at something horrible, Tarantino's movie is so effective precisely because it strikes at the core of our moral sense. Not only is the success of this film not evidence that we are losing our sense of morality, it is strong evidence to the contrary...
...party, a civilized affair in a garden courtyard, was well attended by graduating high school girls. Keanu's sister was among them, and He had been invited by her. About fifteen minutes after I arrived, Keanu strode into the courtyard, sporting an air of nonchalance, a Hollywood-chic black outfit, and a seemingly genuine enjoyment of His particular situation on this festive day. I caught sight of the stares from girls to their friends that screamed, "HE'S HERE OMIGOD HE'S GORGEOUS!" just as I saw Him for the first time, almost face to face. I nodded to acknowledge...
...that one afternoon He had created a hundred "The Day I Met Keanu Reeves" stories, not unlike this one. I had thought myself immune to the whims of Hollywood, but I was sucked in, like all the rest of them...