Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children of those women grew up and moved to Long Island, Miami, Houston and Hollywood. Some of them built shopping malls or went to medical school or wrote television sitcoms. Their stories became literature, their jokes part of the national frame of reference. Assimilation was complete. Now other women from other areas of the world are taking their places...
...freedom means choice, then Baryshnikov reveled in it, pursuing myriad options. He has worked with a dozen or so choreographers. With Twyla Tharp's brilliant Push Comes to Shove (1976), his flair for comedy burst out. In 1977 he became a Hollywood star, playing a famous dancer in The Turning Point. (Another film, White Nights, will be released at Christmas.) The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney...
...retrospect. Robert Redford turns the gifted loser of Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural into a legend inscribed in fireworks. As for Clint Eastwood, cited in a recent Roper poll as the nation's No. 1 hero, impersonating mere humans is no longer a challenge. So in Pale Rider, Hollywood's first big-time, straight-faced western since Heaven's Gate, Eastwood plays God, or maybe Death. With his gritty stare and stubble, he looks like both, warmed over...
...Soviet foes are updated versions of the malevolent Japanese and Germans from World War II films. The cheers that erupt in the theater as the body count soars are coming largely from young moviegoers whose only previous encounter with Viet Nam may have been a question on The Hollywood Squares. "The movie doesn't have a lot to do with Viet Nam and how we felt when we were there," says Josiah Bunting III, a Viet Nam veteran who is now president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. "It's impossible to take seriously, but it's very enjoyable...
DIED. Charles LeMaire, 88, designer of glittering, sumptuous costumes for Hollywood films from 1943 to 1960 and, before that, for more than 60 Broadway shows, including the '20s extravaganzas of Florenz Ziegfeld; in Palm Springs, Calif. After successfully campaigning for an Oscar category in costume design (it started in 1948), he was nominated 16 times and won for All About Eve (1950), The Robe (1953) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing...