Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like another doomed (and much more enjoyable) summer movie, Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, this one attempts to fit a very modern one-name pop superstar into a traditional, golden-age Hollywood format. And why not? Who else has that old-time charisma? Only the bad boy and material girl of rock 'n' roll. With Prince it worked, mostly, because his blend of Little Richard and Little Egypt spiced the stew. But Madonna seems straitjacketed by her role, and Penn, for once, looks bored. She smiles, he glowers. Neither glows like the incandescent movie stars they can and will...
...clan members are unusually close. Three of Larry Tisch's four sons own homes within a twelve-minute drive of his country house. Says Steve Tisch, 37, an independent Hollywood producer (Risky Business) who is Bob's eldest child and has no connection with the family business: "It's remarkable for two guys who have built an empire, yet they have never been too busy for their children...
...spots, the balding Jones tells voters, "I'll have more time each day to work on Oklahoma's problems because I won't need one of these." Grinning broadly, he raises a whirring -- and superfluous -- hair dryer to his head. The implication? That Nickles, thickly thatched and Hollywood handsome, is just another pretty face...
...public singing performance in six years, Barbra Streisand opened her Malibu ranch to the wallets of Jack Nicholson, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda and some 500 others who shelled out an astronomical $2,500 apiece for veal from Spago (very haute) and a backyard concert (very hot). Organized by the Hollywood Women's Political Committee to support six Democratic senatorial candidates, the affair was taped by HBO. Streisand crooned old favorites (People, The Way We Were) as well as new variations (Throw Out the Clowns), explaining that she felt she "must sing again to raise money so that we send people...
Although the proceedings may involve as many as 100 witnesses and go on for four months, the crush of spectators last week is a sure sign that the case has a firm hold on Hollywood's attention. Said Defense Lawyer Arnold Klein last week: "If we could sell tickets, Twilight Zone: The Trial would outsell Twilight Zone: The Movie...