Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marilyn is one Hollywood Venus whose memory--and marketability--is eternal. While no one has gone so far as to disinter Monroe's body, the media, the fans, the flesh mongers and the merely curious will not let her rest in peace. When the new Madonna pumped her muscles and pumped some life into the old Marilyn image, both Vanity Fair and Life gave it cover story coverage. In Paris, where Americanisms are snubbed and snuggled at once, there is an entire store devoted to Marilynobilia. Noting the phenomenon, Time Magazine voted Marilyn the Liveliest Spirit...
...scooting around the toy-strewn rooms of Oliver Stone's French country-style Santa Monica house. The writer-director, who seems capable of doing several things at once, was able to talk to TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell about his pre-Platoon movies and that peculiar state of mind called Hollywood. His comments...
...quite ready for it. I was very much an artist in my mind, and I didn't understand that the movie business is a collaboration between art and money. I wasn't a vet. The same thing that had happened to me in Viet Nam happened to me in Hollywood: I got wounded, blown up right away. I tried to get my script for Born on the Fourth of July made. That was the Ron Kovic story, about a paralyzed vet. Al Pacino was to star, but at the last minute, the money wasn't there. I felt very bitter...
...Marbella, the white-robed swami glided down the marble steps in the middle of dinner, with his 14 disciples arrayed behind him. In an interview with an Indian magazine, the swami was asked what brought the two men together. "We have many common friends in politics and Hollywood," the holy man replied...
...five years of psychoanalysis. Awful, but for the sake of the narrative not bad. Right about here a reversal of fortune would do nicely. So our hero wrote Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the novel that made him rich, famous and controversial. Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy were snapped up by Hollywood. And then . . . and then Roth fell in love with a movie star...