Word: hollywoodized
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...only Spears circus that folks are seeing these days is onstage at sold-out auditoriums. "The good news is, she's been able to re-create herself and finish the U.S. tour," says the insider. "While people in Hollywood love seeing a downfall, they are all about seeing people pull themselves together. And it seems, for now, Britney's doing it." (See Britney Spears in the top 10 celebrity-paparazzi showdowns...
This is a reasonable qualm, but as Max might say, "Now stop!" Jonze, chronicler of uncertain adulthood in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, has done a masterly job of bringing Sendak's work to the screen. He has broken one Hollywood doctrine: the notion that children's cinema is best devised for miniature couch potatoes who require a steady stream of laughs, action sequences and references to flatulence. Even the best American children's movies, like those made by Pixar, embed their heartfelt messages in what are fundamentally entertainments. The mysterious emotional turmoil and, let's face it, weirdness that...
...raid looked like something out of a Hollywood action movie. On July 7, Russian special forces dropped down on ropes from a helicopter to storm a luxury yacht on the Pirogovsky reservoir outside Moscow, arresting three dozen mobsters, including the group's alleged ringleader, Tariel Oniani. But within days, nearly all of them, including Oniani, had to be set free because prosecutors couldn't charge them with anything...
...once thought to be deviant but now generally accepted as mainstream. In 2009, just as in the 1970s, it is considered a bad thing to rape a child and run from the law. And so will it be 30 years from now and 60 years from now. Even in Hollywood...
...when the Bolshevik Revolution took place. Her family, suddenly poor, was forced to flee, and Rand's hatred of communism and any sort of collectivism would guide her life. Arriving in the U.S. in 1926 with a new name, Ayn (rhymes with fine) made her way to Hollywood, where she had modest success as a screenwriter and married an aspiring actor, Frank O'Connor. Her politicization came when she and her husband worked on Republican Wendell Willkie's losing presidential campaign in 1940. According to Burns, "Before Willkie she had been pro-capitalist yet pessimistic, writing 'The capitalist world...