Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PROTECTING THE GIFT: KEEPING CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS SAFE (AND PARENTS SANE) By Gavin de Becker (Dial Press) Trust your intuition. That's the message from De Becker, who advises the rich and famous from Hollywood to Washington on security matters. But parents don't need to be celebrities to benefit from his sage counsel. De Becker's book gives families million-dollar advice for $22.95. If a baby sitter makes you uneasy, writes De Becker, listen to your inner voice. Pay heed if your child is uncomfortable around a particular adult. Make careful choices about the people you include...
Before all 11 victims in the 1997 film Scream 2 have been gored, shot or hacked to death, there's an odd bit of dialogue. A roomful of young Hollywood hotties--playing a roomful of Midwestern college hotties--debate whether film violence causes real violence. "It's directly responsible," says the student played by Josh Jackson (Pacey on Dawson's Creek). "That's so Moral Majority," sneers Cici, the coed played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (a.k.a. Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
This rare instance of Hollywood introspection would be more interesting if it weren't so cynical. A few minutes later, the action has returned to a heart-thumping pace. Cici is stabbed in the back and thrown from the balcony of her sorority house. The rock sound track swells as the camera dwells for a moment on her corpse...
...films set box-office records in Asia, and so Hollywood finally gave him the American action movie he longed to make. But Lee died a month before the release of his first U.S. film, Enter the Dragon. The movie would make more than $200 million, and college kids would pin Lee posters next to Che Guevara's. In the end, Lee could only exist young and in the movies. Briefly, he burst out against greater powers before giving himself over to the authorities. A star turn in a century not good for the Chinese...
...rumor" Hollywood stood in awe of. The public never seemed to get the aura of the word adultery, for Hepburn and Tracy seemed so very like the attractive people they played in nine films together...