Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Another part of Kerr's chameleonic character was her red hair, a dramatic frame for her pale skin. For her three Colonel Blimp characters she had worn it in different shades and styles, from upswept scarlet to sensible russet. She was a natural for Hollywood in the postwar years, when more movies were made in Technicolor, and red was the fashionable tint for an actress. Yet in her most famous film role - anyway, film scene - she went platinum blond...
...scene is remembered for the much-imitated smooch at the shoreline, but it's more mature and complicated than that. From Here to Eternity helped Hollywood approach themes of sexual yearning and remorse in a more mature fashion. The movement could have no finer exemplars than Lancaster, the wily male animal, and Kerr, the lady who revealed, with her subtlety and daring, that things may never be quite what they seem...
...except Hartnett, always the provincial braveheart. The screenwriters make a few pitiful attempts to provide Harnett with opportunities for grade-A Hollywood heroism: When the vampires use a young girl as bait to lure the survivors into the street, Hartnett rushes in with his axe at the ready and tries (unsuccessfully) to save the girl. Later, when the survivors sneak from one hiding place from another, Hartnett fends off the bloodthirsty villains with a UV lamp his grandmother used to grow weed (for medical purposes, of course...
...Fairly Odd Parents,” and to the ever-famous “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” Chihuahua of the fast-food chain’s campaign. He starred in his own half-hour stand up comedy special on Comedy Central and performs live at the Hollywood Improv, The Ice House, The M Bar, and The Knitting Factory...
Redford lamented the corruption of not only politics, which he called a “system that takes good people and eats them for breakfast,” but also the media and Hollywood...