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...would not. It has been portrayed over the years as there being "lucrative deals" awaiting me in Hollywood. But if you look at the record, I didn't make a movie for two or three years. There were no lucrative deals awaiting me. I left because I was in love with a girl in L.A. I missed it very much. I should have hung around for years. And I feel bad about...
Accustomed to the presence of intellectual superstars around campus, Harvard students barely batted an eyelid yesterday at the prospect of spotting Hollywood celebrities...
...Rivas-Rodriguez points out that too often the Hispanic experience has been ignored or reshaped in modern media: The 1960 movie Hell to Eternity was based on the experiences of Navy Cross winner and Hispanic U.S. Marine Guy Galbadon, but when Hollywood told his story, Jeffrey Hunter played him as a blue-eyed Italian-American...
...don’t respond to it the same way, or like it the same, or hate it the same.”While Fergus is open to suggestion, he puts more energy into bridging the gap between wide-open collaboration and the narrow-minded decisiveness typical of a Hollywood director.Though he allows an actor to experiment with his script and test audiences to tweak some aspect of the film, he is the head honcho when it comes to the overall outcome of his work.“If you know what you want it to be, everyone feels confident...
...Hollywood had men-only genres too, especially the western. Cowboy films allowed for a token lady part, to give the hero someone to fight over; but she would never do the fighting, instead cowering, paralyzed with dread, during the final showdown. It wasn't until the exploitation movies of the '60s and '70s--the ones paid lavish tribute in Grindhouse--that the gals in guy-genre films finally had something to do: take charge, kick ass and kill people. The films weren't exactly feminist, since the actresses usually had to take off their blouses before they could flex their...