Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...donned the latex for Star Trek: Insurrection. He plays Ru'afo, an alien Peter Pan. "Ru'afo's like so many of us who never want to grow old," says the actor, "but he takes it to terrible extremes, like some of these awful face-lifts you see in Hollywood." His own facial regimen--four hours of makeup daily--did have its perks: "Being really ugly can be a great way to pick up women...
...summer three-day opening, and proof indeed that, while Oprah Winfrey may not be a film star, Adam Sandler surely is. This veteran of Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun Man? why?) now joins Will Smith and Jim Carrey as top movie money earners under 40. And in Hollywood, for just this moment, he is an even rarer commodity: a bargain. After three days in the plexes, The Waterboy made back its meager $23 million budget...
...there is a fault to the production, it isthat it had to end--the way it did. Into thesecond act, the momentum so well built up in thefirst begins to wind down. The "Hollywood ending,"with its hurried hodge-podge, shallow staging andgarish coloring, undoes the sophisticatedsubtleties which made the rest of the show sorich. What had promised to be a scorching andsultry tale of thwarted amour and twisted ambitioncatches itself in a burlesque conclusion...
...Boston's newest emags, Stuff@night, is throwing its first anniversary party. The ads say, "All of Boston's Kens and Barbies are invited to a fabu Hollywood Extravaganza." Bonus points awarded for plastic hair, driving up in pink Mattel sedan and use of wanna-be Californian slang? 10:30 p.m., Avalon, 15 Lansdowne...
...same time however, Hollywood tends to shape the perceptions of these couples in a way that desexualizes gay men. Augustine, a women's studies concentrator, has an academic as well as personal interest in this concept. "There's an issue of passing and trapping in a heteronormative paradigm, what men should act like. These men can't be the women's best friends if they're not pretending to be straight," he says...