Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PROVENANCE: New Age guru Chopra gathered some of his Hollywood pals, including Moore, Madonna, Martin Sheen and Goldie Hawn, to record some of Rumi's love poems. Taken with Moore's track, a Staten Island, N.Y., musician added a techno beat...
...Hollywood just can't be trusted. A few weeks ago, we were positive that the Sandra Bullock comedy Forces of Nature would stand for years as the nadir of filmmaking. People would come out of some piece of tripe, shrug and say, "It wasn't as bad as Forces of Nature." Well, we were wrong; the bar just got lowered. The Mod Squad, based on the TV series that ran from 1968 to 1973, is a disaster you don't have to wait for to happen. It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special...
...Joan Chen, she stars in The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks and Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth. Chen shuttles between East and West, playing fiercely intelligent seducers in the Hong Kong Temptation of a Monk and Red Rose, White Rose while making onscreen love with Anne Heche in Hollywood's Wild Side. She marries happily to Peter Hui, a San Francisco cardiologist. Who could ask for anything more...
Joan Chen always asked, demanded, more of herself--certainly more than Hollywood wanted of her. "The only thing I achieved going to the States was that I became an exotic beauty," she says. "I did my best to give a version of Chinese-ness that the West was looking for. But I also understood that that version of me was worthless. I wanted to do something more serious." Clearly, Chen's striking beauty--searchlight eyes, long, strong neck and, it must be said, the most luscious mouth on either side of the Pacific--is merely the wrapping for surpassing talent...
...machines really have taken over the world. Yeah, sure, you had that idea a couple of sleepless nights ago and immediately dismissed it as farfetched. But that's why your life remains Dilbert-like and why the giddily self-confident Wachowskis are (potentially) the dauphins of the new Hollywood...