Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SERIES OF EMOTIONAL expectorations worthy of the best screen tests, engrossing MTV styled entrances to the tune of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, pasted jackets and florescent ties, costumes fit for any Spring Garden Party, ghosts portrayed with techniques most shamelessly existed from a horror Film seen this year-yes, Brad Dalton's... whatever? is all of this, three and one-half hours of all of this. Generally well-choreographed, often amusing, absurdly comic, emotionally unencumbering, less tedious than its length suggests, it has that same cheeky appeal as Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" or a bust of George Washington with...
Dalton's Hamlet misses that tragedy in its lust for innovation. Enter Claudius and court, and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" echoes inside Leverett Old Library. Let Hamlet speak--whether of lust, love, murder, revenge, proto-angst, what have you--and make him wear a "Relax" button. Enter stage left characters with conspicuously placed Lee jeans patches. Somewhere under the seductive tones of "Relax" I could hear the equally seductive call, all the more insidious for its subtletly, "Innovate...
...Specialist is really just a hodgepodge of lectures on anti-terrorism, a killer trying to explain himself, and a few interesting questions against a background of some Hollywood-style violence. Intellectual literature this book...
...mandate of male weepies to smash one Hollywood cliche (in this case, that heroes are always handsome) in order to reveal several others (beauty is the beast; the good die young). Anna Hamilton Phelan's script neither sidesteps nor wallows in these homilies; it is notable mostly for the bathetic excesses it avoids. So is Peter Bogdanovich's directorial touch. Bogdanovich may be the last and finest avatar of the classic Hollywood style; discreet tracking shots, invisible editing, no camerabatics, no teary close- ups for emotional blackmail. Nobody is trying to make a masterpiece here. Mask has a sturdy, disposable...
...music by Bruce Springsteen (Rocky's favorite rock star) with four Bob Seger songs. Twenty-two directors, including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Frank Capra, came to Bogdanovich's defense; so did an impromptu protest committee, Moviegoers Against Studio Kibitzing (M.A.S.K.). So the picture offers two parables: one of Hollywood devouring its own, one of the man in the lion mask. The second is worth attending to, for it demonstrates anew that there is such a thing as an honest cry at the movies...