Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone forget to inform Robert Townsend that a Hollywood picture costs serious money, like $15 million? Why else would anyone have the nerve to launch a movie on a savings account of just $20,000? For Townsend, the film's director and star, a strong entrepreneurial urge overcame weak financing. When the director's cash ran out, he simply started using his two credit cards. Then he applied for twelve more of them to pay for film, costumes, rental equipment and food. He even paid his actors by filling up their gas tanks and charging it. His artful dodging finally...
...challenge of making movies on the cheap is to keep them from looking the part. Thus the scrimping goes on behind the scenes, where the cast and the crew forgo the usual Hollywood frills. Says Larry Jackson, head of production for Goldwyn: "We have only one hairdresser instead of six. People share bathrooms. In many cases, you'll find actors carrying props." Moreover, big- name actors sometimes agree to work for reduced wages on small pictures they believe in. Says Bette Davis, who stars in Alive Films' The Whales of August, to be released in September: "What Jack Warner...
...their movies-in-progress, seeking to find buyers at film festivals and industry conventions all over the world. One independent, John Sayles, director of the 1984 hit The Brother from Another Planet, finances his own movies by grinding out screenplays like The Clan of the Cave Bear for major Hollywood studios...
Some producers are trying to lure women by making hard-core imitations of soap operas like The Young and the Restless or Harlequin romances. Says Bill Margold of West Hollywood, a longtime performer in and director of porno films: "The industry is trying to capture the soap opera, the romance novel. We're trying to capture admiration for the female." Says Money: "On network soap operas you get above-the-beltline love and guess the rest. On videos you get below the beltline but a romantic story line as well...
...turning the plain old telephone and its push- + button heirs into sophisticated electronic instruments. Among other things, they block out unwanted calls and listen to voice commands. -- Fujitsu drops its bid for Fairchild. -- Wall Street' s spreading scandal fells Stock Trader Boyd Jefferies. -- Independent filmmakers steal the scene in Hollywood...