Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Strangelove has passed into our national vocabulary, artists from JoAnne Akalaitis to the cabal of Hollywood dignitaries behind The day After have all imagined that they could do what Kubrick couldn't: influence the course of the arms race. Fearlessly armed with the facts and logical arguments, but rarely a smidgen of dramatic or narrative strength they can call their own, the anti-nuclear advocates carry on despite 20 years of null impact on American or Soviet policy. It's ironic that until very recently, both this nation's nuclear strategists and their foes still relied on vintage...
Like a bastard-bitch of all the great Hollywood hags--the Wicked Witch of the West, Snow White's nemesis, the Big Mama Jamma of Aliens, Linda Blair--or like a Heavy Metal album cover, or maybe Charlotte of Charlotte's web keye-up on Benzedrine, she hovers suspended in a junkyard web, hissing threats to Michael Jackson, clicking her Ultra-Nails at the camera. The best 3-D moment in Captain EO comes when the Queen unravels her armor-plated crab claws and practically, you know, picks yer nose. It's great. It's, uhh, disgusting...
...HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS, Collins 5 8 FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, Coonts 7 9 THE PANIC OF '89, Erdman -- 10 SHAN, Van Lustbader -- NONFICTION 1 FATHERHOOD, Cosby 1 2 A SEASON ON THE BRINK, Feinstein 6 3 THE ROTATION DIET, Katahn 3 4 MCMAHON!, McMahon 2 5 MEN WHO HATE WOMEN...
...obedient son. Professionally, he was his father's offspring, "a supplier of entertainment, comfort, distraction, and healing symbols," a somnipractor, suggests the author, an arranger of others' dreams. The now famous years as radio sportscaster, describing baseball games confected from telegraph bulletins, were succeeded by decades as a Hollywood actor whose ideas of history were often derived from scenarios...
...each. He has a $1.5 million deal with Random House for his autobiography, which is due out this fall. He turned down invitations to join the boards of three major corporations. O'Neill has also spurned offers to appear in an American Express commercial and on Hollywood Squares, and to play a judge on Superior Court. Says he: "I am trying not to exploit the office of Speaker. If people are still interested in me in six months, then we might talk. But for right now, nothing...