Word: hollywoodized
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...often complained on this site about how Hollywood movies ignore women, or turn them into figures of fem-machismo. Now I see that, in the burliest genres, men's roles are being feminized. Peter Parker may be affianced to M.J., but their love seems pretty shallow and perfunctory. His most intense relationship is with Harry, his friend and surrogate brother - someone to try to talk sense to, to banter and battle with, to caress lovingly when he's hurt...
Trying to rehabilitate the public image of skinheads is no easy task. Judging by Hollywood's take on the genre - see 1998's American History X or Russell Crowe in 1992's Romper Stomper - skinheads are popularly portrayed as neo-Nazi racists with a penchant for violent thuggery. Not so, contends Shane Meadows, the young British director whose new film, provocatively entitled This is England, is raising eyebrows in its exposé of this most controversial of subcultures...
...thrill because I was in a professional show with Tony [Award] winners, but I was standing on stage in my underwear with ten other fairies singing fairy songs,” recalls Hoagland. After college, Hoagland plans to move to Hollywood and try his luck on the silver screen. “I am excited to move to L.A. to begin my career,” he says. “But I am also nervous about my potential to get discouraged. It will take time to build a career. Acting is not like becoming a doctor, which always includes...
...Jack surely loved those "strangler" metaphors. But he retired, three years ago, with his own neck untouched. He came to Hollywood an unknown quantity and left this world its most legendary hypester. Veni, vidi, Valenti...
...With what Hollywood personality does he most want to work? Austin had a meandering story to answer that question...