Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines of stretch limousines and crowds of celebrity gawkers at Los Angeles' glassy Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated...
...grim side. Alternating with the show- biz stars were people like Helen Kushnick, a Beverly Hills mother who lost her three-year-old son Sammy in 1983 to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease known as AIDS, and the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a minister with the North Hollywood Metropolitan Community Church, who has suffered from AIDS since 1984. The message from President Reagan, who had made his first public mention of the widely feared and often stigmatizing illness at a press conference two evenings earlier, also concerned the scourge of AIDS. Read by Actor Burt Reynolds, the statement urged...
...this movie, which manages to make the miraculous seem trite and the spiritual seem silly, deserves the full wrath of the Creator whose name it bandies about so much. No doubt, but that this Creator will be destroyed in the box office, that most merciless repository of Man's (Hollywood Man's) Judgment on earth...
...Given Hollywood's current taste for Spielbergian light-and magic shows, an "actor's movie" is a dying breed. But in Kiss of the Spider Woman, a film mixing the dangerous ingredients of politics and movie glamour itself, the actors' contributions are paramount...
...uses a rock score to enliven the weekly adventures of a hip free-lance reporter and his partner who go undercover for stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard. Creator Aaron Spelling's vision of Hollywood's "raw underbelly" features a ludicrous gallery of street folk (good-hearted prostitutes, a "cute" bag lady and a caped wacko called Captain Crusader) who could...