Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with some team closer to home and his acting career, in which he has appeared most recently as a North African paterfamilias in the ABC-TV movie Roots. He has also signed up for lessons with Drama Coach Lee Strasberg, which is an approved way of paying dues in Hollywood...
...need to feel abashed at not knowing the answer: Indian Actor Shashi Kapoor, 38, is one of the stars in the Asian moviemaking world whose output is prodigious by Hollywood standards but who is seldom seen in the U.S. (Shashi did play opposite Hayley Mills in Pretty Polly.) For the most part, that is just as well. No other region of the world produces such a concoction of Kung Fu, scifi, porn, soapers, chasers and period pieces with such uneven degrees of tackiness and brilliance. From India to Japan, the film studios of Asia churn out more than...
Despite Japan's doldrums, Asia's film industry as a whole is likely to continue booming. The audiences obviously like what they see−however limited it may be−and the moviemakers will doubtlessly go on giving them what they want. Like their counterparts in Hollywood, the Asian Film men keep their eyes on the cash registers and their illusions on the screen...
Weaving fiction around such a monstrously self-mythologizing place as Hollywood is like gilding a plastic lily. That is just what Thomas Tryon unabashedly attempts in Crowned Heads. He is not writing for the ages but for the balcony...
This is hardly the ore of glistening literary biography and, save for a précis of Chandler's boozy sojourn in Hollywood -where he wrote the script for Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train-McShane does little more than apologize for his reticent and rude subject. Like one of Marlowe's villains, Chandler was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro in inclination, alcoholic in practice and notably hostile even to those who praised...