Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spiritual tract or a cheap shocker: the supernatural portions are elegant, almost metaphysical asides. Sprechman, 66, has worked in the movie industry for more than 25 years, as financial vice president of Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures and, currently, chief financial officer of Kaleidoscope Films Inc., a leading Hollywood producer of movie trailers. The quality of Caribe indicates that he may well belong on the creative side of the business...
...most requested tax publications. The FBI prints descriptions of its ten most wanted criminals, complete with digitized mug shots for quick identification. Want to know the weather in Omaha? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides daily reports. Need the Nielsen ratings of the last episode of Dynasty? Hollywood Hotline includes them in its entertainment features. Considering a visit to the Soviet Union? A recent State Department travel advisory warned that hotel rooms were booked solid for the duration of the Communist Party Congress that ended last month...
...endeavor, but he attacks the heart of high school superficiality with all the unconventional weapons of his character and his very down-to-earth courage. Will Lucas get the girl? Will his classmates accept him for what he is? Are football players such bad guys after all? This is Hollywood. You can bet at least a compromise with fate will be worked...
Ratings, however, are not the only explanation for the sitcom's resurgence. Half-hour comedies are becoming more attractive to the networks because of a dispute with Hollywood producers over the rising costs of hour-long action- adventure shows. Network payments do not fully cover the cost of making these series; production companies recoup their money by selling the reruns later in syndication. But hour series are not doing well on the rerun market, and some major studios are threatening to bow out of making them unless the networks pick up more of the cost...
...truth--and this movie stretches that notion to its breaking point--is not necessarily an excuse for movie-making. A tough movie about a destructive relationship is potentially good fodder for Hollywood, especially now that film-makers are given unprecedented freedom to portray life and love in all its carnal beauty and horror...