Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...past belongs to us," Miss Falewicz finally says, enunciating Gondry's message. "We can change it any way we like." In strict movie terms, that sounds like Hollywood giving itself a license to maraud its old films: to show them chopped down to fit a TV time slot and a standard TV frame; to interrupt them every few mins. with commercials; to colorize them; to issue dubious re-cuts that, say, put decades-later digital effects in Star Wars and leave fans of the originals scrounging for copies the only place they're available...
...week, Emeruwa was still as cool and confident as ever. “In Nollywood, we don’t count the walls,” he says. “We’ve learned to climb them.” Truer words were seldom spoken. Directors in Hollywood and Bollywood, currently the first and second largest film industries in the world, hardly have to worry whether an ambulance will get stuck in the dirt and stall during their final day of shooting. But like the title of Franco Sacchi’s and Robert Caputo?...
...Acting the Part The feature on Sylvester Stallone and his latest Rambo movie reminded me that our biggest Hollywood war heroes, John Wayne and Sylvester Stallone, made very sure they were never in the military, much less a real war [Feb. 4]. I'm no hero, but these guys aren't either. How refreshing it would have been to hear one of them discuss the role that guilt played in their careers. Rick Donahoe, Yellow Springs, Ohio...
...battle of Obama vs. Clinton were being told by a Hollywood filmmaker instead of by the muse of history, the opening scene would be set beneath the spreading pecan trees of the Scholz Garten in Austin, Texas. Of all the beer joints in all the world, this venerable watering hole near the state capitol may come closest to the heart of Texas' Democratic Party. Liberals have been hatching plans here since Lyndon Johnson was a big-eared kid, and for a few months in 1972, it was the venue of choice for the young organizers of George McGovern's quixotic...
...Hell hath no fury like an agent scorned” seems to be the enduring message of Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed,” a sharp chamber comedy that fiercely satirizes Hollywood wheeling and dealing and probes issues of gay identity in the popular media.The Tony-nominated play makes its New England premier at the Wembly Theater at the Calderwood Pavillion, directed by Paul Melone and running through Feb. 16.The play focuses on Mitchell Green (Robert Serrell), a young actor confused about his sexual orientation and attempting to reconcile a budding...