Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the action in Hollywood stopped again, but this time it may not resume so breezily. It has been nearly two months since the shootings at Columbine High, and much of the political maneuvering in the weeks following focused on guns. But now Washington has unleashed a set of proposals designed to prevent kids from watching their favorite stars threatened with grisly deaths. Many politicians are hoping that by reining in violent imagery, they can prevent future Columbines--or at least convince constituents that they are trying to. Americans seem receptive: 64% of the respondents in a TIME/CNN poll...
...that has Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman making weird whoopee, so it shouldn't be a chore to sit through. Most of the other pictures are minds wide shut. Their only aim is to make you laugh yourself sick. As Eddie Murphy, playing a star actor in the inside-Hollywood comedy Bowfinger, says, "We're tryin' to make a movie here, not a film...
After a decade of warm-weather box offices defined by mammoth action films, Hollywood is partying in 1999. This is the season of silly--the goofy summer. Also dopey, because the humor is so often about bodily functions. And happy, for the studio bosses pleased not to be sweating out each weekend's take for a Titanic-priced epic that may do Postman-like business...
...miss Shane. Now that I know he's not that talented, powerful or smooth with the ladies, my Hollywood dream is just a fun, overpaid desk job. Because even Comedy Central pays better than TIME. I think it has something to do with the fact that on TV the ads move. People seem to like that...
...they'll probably just hit the streets rather than waste their hard-earned bucks. And it is much better to have your kids sitting safely in a theater watching an R-rated movie than on the streets, where they can be exposed to a world just as violent as Hollywood's. Parents should be relieved that their children want to see Scream at a theater they know, instead of having absolutely no idea where their kids are and whom they are with...