Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Screen Actors Guild (SAG) prepares to announce the nominees for its annual awards ceremony on Dec. 18, it is not in such a celebratory mood. Hollywood's largest actors' union is currently grappling with whether or not to go on strike against studios over revenue from online films and television shows - the same issue that compelled writers to strike for 100 days earlier this year. On Dec. 15, a New York City SAG town-hall meeting devolved into a heated back and forth between union President Alan Rosenberg - who is planning to spend $100,000 of the group's money...
...guess: maybe, because Hollywood loves a comeback story, and because Rourke gives the kind of performance that members of the Motion Picture Academy think burrows into the very essence of acting. He made himself nearly unrecognizable - put on maybe 40 lb., studded his face and body with the scars of war - to play a has-been fighter hoping for a last shot at the big time. It's the kind of punishment that won kudos for Lon Chaney and Paul Muni in the old days and helped Robert De Niro to an Oscar in Raging Bull playing Jake LaMotta...
...Video games aren’t completely recession-proof. The North American market almost collapsed due to oversaturation after 1983. But the industry is certainly in a much better position than Hollywood, which faces a unique problem in this recession because it has become far too easy to get access to content for free online. Fewer people will continue to pay for cable when they can watch TV shows online for free, which has become widely available legally. With games, illegal downloading is a non-issue, since most titles are far too complex to stream...
...stuff of movies: a dead fish and a rose on a car windshield, a safe full of money and explosives, a room full of wiretapping equipment. The 2002 arrest of Anthony Pellicano, former private eye to the stars, kicked off one of Hollywood's most dramatic scandals. On Dec. 15, a federal judge sentenced Pellicano to fifteen years in prison after a May trial in which he was found guilty on 78 counts, including wiretapping and racketeering. He's been in jail since 2003 on federal explosives charges. Only in Hollywood, kids...
...came up with stuff that other people didn't. He did that over and over again. He was just better." - Bert Fields, top Hollywood lawyer, several of whose clients had employed Pellicano, on the investigator's mysterious but effective methods (The New Yorker, July...