Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial should be moved to the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, with $25 daily admission charged. The money accrued from the sold-out performances of Shapiro, Cochran, Clark & Bailey would defray the high costs of the trial, and the move would place the proceedings in a proper venue for the spectacle the trial has become...
Idealism seems to run in the blood of Hollywood's new junior class, several of whom grew up in counterculture families. Thurman's mother was once married to Timothy Leary-who is also, coincidentally, Ryder's godfather. Thurman's father is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism. Charles Bukowski was a frequent houseguest at the DiCaprios' when Leonardo was growing up in Los Angeles. The actor's best childhood friend was Abbie Hoffman's son. And Sarah Jessica Parker grew up idolizing Cesar Chavez and attending peace marches with her parents...
Even today the interests of this new wave of stars seem to extend beyond the Hollywood club scene. Hawke and Sarah Jessica Parker live quiet lives in Manhattan, where they are involved in theater and claim not to socialize much with other actors. Two years ago, Hawke started his own theater company, where he presides as artistic director. Ryder collects rare books and owns an edition of James Joyce's Ulysses that features original drawings by Matisse. She is also a fan of the obscure, critically lauded Italian-American novelist John Fante...
...kids have successfully styled themselves away from comparisons to the Brat Pack, they have also distinguished themselves from prior generations of movie stars. They don't have the smoldering rebelliousness of '50s stars like Brando, Clift and Dean. Nor are they throwbacks to the glamorous Hollywood stars of the '30s and '40s. What this generation has done is create its own kind of understated, unaffected sophistication-Bette Davis and Cary Grant in mussed bobs and basketball sneakers. These actors have nothing against grownups; they're just not ready to be them...
...world was not affected, but that was never the point. Thanks to the Hasty Pudding, "Forrest Gump" had his face on the Sam Adams' label for an evening. There are still no Tom Hanks action figures, but at least there is still one nice guy left in Hollywood. He really is a doll...