Word: hollywoodized
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...during a recession, cheap entertainment remains popular. Take Hollywood: While stories of soaring attendance during the Great Depression are probably false, movie attendance did increase in five of the last seven recessions. The explanation is simple: Movies provide a dose of high-quality entertainment, which is more in demand during a recession not only because people have more free time but because they have a greater need for escape from their problems. More importantly, movies are a pretty cheap way to spend an evening, and they appeal to a consumer who faces economic uncertainty...
...Ebert wrote this in 1969, in a review of the flop Hollywood bio-pic Che!, with the not-very-Latin Omar Sharif as Guevara. Yet most of Ebert's denunciations apply to Soderbergh's movie, which dispenses with the exclamation point - and with almost all of the compelling, sometimes contradictory drama in Che Guevara's life...
...next time an "inspirational" speech appears on your movie screen and the surround-sound strings swell - don't worry. They'll make it. They'll win. They'll prevail. They have to. It's Hollywood...
...alone before the audience. Langella and Sheen often accomplish with one facial tick what most actors fail to do with their entire bodies. Riveting to behold, “Frost/Nixon” is a wonderful exercise in toned-down storytelling that’s uncharacteristic of ratcheted-up Hollywood. We are reminded in the interview scenes that one does not need the histrionics of digitized monsters or the pyrotechnics of world warfare to enrapture an audience. The greatest drama of all can take place on the stage of the human face.As Nixon’s antagonist, Frost, Sheen does...
...Hollywood Foreign Press Association •Golden Globe Award nominees are selected by 83 members...