Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Center for Health Communication is devoted to using the media to influence positively public behavior and has successfully worked with Hollywood since the 1980s to prevent drunk driving, according to Winsten...
...became friends, I discovered that Jay was as golden as Hollywood golden boys get, a behind-the-scenes show-biz dealmaker with his hands on the levers of the starmaking machinery. One of the most successful agents in show business and a part owner of the powerful Creative Artists Agency, Jay represented Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman, David Letterman and other major names. He had been the protege of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz and was already being touted, at 30, as a future studio head. He dated models and actresses, drove a Ferrari, lived...
...became more engrossing than ever. Not only was 1999 the watershed year in which sales of games overtook box-office receipts for the first time, but the quality of those games improved exponentially, leading some to believe that the game industry is entering a Golden Age roughly equivalent to Hollywood's in the 1940s...
...even abroad, it's not Hollywood-friendly riots or atomic disasters that we should be fearing. It's economic trouble. Even if one of these countries suffers a Y2K-related banking shutdown, it could cause ripples in the global pool. And that's why Y2K command-center staff members won't be popping Champagne corks if midnight comes and goes without incident. There will be at least another week of active duty on the financial watch ahead of them. The date many Y2K watchers are waiting for is not Saturday, Jan. 1, but Monday, Jan. 3, when the world...
...subtle feminism, though, World is not perfect. Past Bond movies tended, with several notable exceptions, to practice a principle preached on several occasions by Ronald Reagan, a frequent critic of Hollywood's insatiable libido. Said Reagan, "I have always thought it was more suggestive to see a hand reach out and hang a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door." The lesson: Merely suggesting sex is often more effective than showing it onscreen...