Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None but the French have swum so easily in the rude and mysterious currents of American culture. They found philosophy in our comic strips, published our expatriate novelists, embraced Hollywood movies and dubbed their directors "auteurs." And when the pioneers of bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the ionosphere of improvisation, French intellectuals were happy to welcome these black American outlaws to Paris after World War II. Bud Powell, the pathfinding bop pianist, settled there in the '50s, made friends and musical history and went a little crazy. Dexter Gordon, a crucial link in tenor-sax bop between...
...horror picture, and I don't think he understood the genre") and the summer's Maximum Overdrive ("a stiff"), which King directed. But privately he derives consolation from a James M. Cain anecdote. An interviewer commiserated with the author of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice because Hollywood had ruined all his books. "Cain looked over at his shelf and said, 'No, they are all still right there.' " Besides, King's work has inspired a bona fide hit in 1986: Rob Reiner's Stand by Me, an adaptation of The Body, a 1982 novella that focuses...
...declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks that much of life is made of trivia. The talk ranges from bitchy quips ("I just flew in from Hollywood. I was there too long: four hours") and camp badinage ("An advantage of being homosexual is that I don't have to pay all that alimony") to a tearstained, self-blaming recollection of his sister Rose's lobotomy. Eerily, even at his most private and abandoned moments, this Williams surreptitiously...
...Nancy Reagan, the 1960s were a dark and undisciplined time that devastated our young people and spawned a drug culture. Hollywood, once her spiritual home, often failed in its responsibilities to the young and the nation. Now she and her husband are destined to work and plead and pray harder in the next two years than they did in their first...
Stealing the show is Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography, which is hazy and remote throughout but becomes fast-paced and astute as the more sanguinary scenes call for it. Even fans of its literary parent will find Hollywood's Rose rendition to be a vision...