Word: hollywoodizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Orlando are there for the same reasons as those who visit: because of its proximity to an all-ages fun-time wonderworld. Here is a metropolis whose success has been erected on the American family's itch for entertainment. Not since Southern California sprang up around the burgeoning Hollywood film colony has a region owed its riches, if not its existence, to show business. Where parents once took their children to Manhattan for a weekend of Broadway and the Rockettes, now they get their fill of live entertainment in Disney World and the clone worlds that have attached themselves...
...Hollywood's magic moments used to be mostly quiet ones: Rick telling Sam to play it again in Casablanca, Charles Foster Kane muttering his dying "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane. The memorable screen moments of recent years are more, well, eye-catching. A fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones...
Film critics, filmmakers and a philosopher agreed Thursday that films, even Hollywood melodramas, are most certainly a form...
...questions from the audience focused mostly on why Hollywood no longer made romantic comedies that were as moving or as successful as "Mr. Deeds...
Some disgruntled Hollywood figure whom Welles had crossed in the past? Perhaps the old rumors are true, and the ghost of Herman Mankiewicz, Welles' undercredited collaborator on Citizen Kane, still walks among...