Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood came to Harvard Square yesterday, as ABC camera crews drew throngs of curious Cantabrigians to the filming of the new television serial "Spenser: For Hire...
Only a few hours earlier, Rupert Murdoch had confided to a visitor that he has no particular fondness for Hollywood's social circuit. But a show- business mogul must put on a good show. So there he stood last month sipping Perrier at a Beverly Hills reception, flashing a smile and chatting comfortably with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dino De Laurentiis. Stars and studio bosses had all turned out. The party, in honor of Murdoch and his wife Anna, was the perfect opportunity for everyone to size up the Australian-born newspaper tycoon who has become America...
20th Century-Fox Chairman Barry Diller, Murdoch's man on the spot in Hollywood, readily admits that it is "a bit grand" to believe that the new Fox Inc. in the next few years could assemble a network comparable to ABC, CBS and NBC. Instead Fox intends to form a loose confederation and build the business gradually, first offering perhaps an hour of programming per night. Says one Fox executive: "When you get to the point of selling a few nights of programming a few years down the road, you're looking very much like a network." Concurs FCC Commissioner...
...these features hide the equally Texan and equally historically important characteristics which lie below the bluster and Hollywood romance that make this novel entertaining. Texans were the violent Comanche and Mexican killers that Michener made his out to be. But most of the time (in between the occassional Indian raids, Mexican Wars, American Wars, and lynchings) Texans were tackling the element that formed them--the vast, wealthy space called Texas. The land theme, however, lacks entertainment value--aneedotes about rugged Texans replacing fence posts does not make good novel material. So Michener sacrifices real education on his subject for stereotyped...
MICHENER'S CHARACTERS make Texas out to be a Hollywood production. It is the most exotic place with the most exotic people in North America, but making every Texan as a most honest, least scrupulous, or add-your-own-superlative adjective variation on John Wayne just isn't real. Otto McNab, the Mexican-killingest, honestest, independentest, good-community-manest Texas Ranger is almost so absurd that the book becomes humor rather than drama. There were some pretty tough Rangers, but none so epic in every quality...