Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven weeks after the session, the record has hit the stores and the airwaves, and shows strong indications of being the smash of the decade. At Tower Records' Sunset Boulevard store in West Hollywood, 1,000 copies were sold in two days. "A No. 1 single sells about 100 to 125 copies a week," explains Richard Petitpas, the store's singles buyer. "This is absolutely unheard of." Ken Barnes, editor of the trade magazine Radio & Records, says We Are the World was put on the air in its first week by 91% of the 256 radio stations that are regularly...
...David Newman (Bonnie and Clyde) asks, "Why can't Academy members vote for three French and two German films if they happen to be the best? Foreign films should be selected on the same basis as the others: quality." Tavernier blames the rule on the "protectionism and provincialism" of Hollywood: "It's as if the Americans are saying to the rest of us, 'You are enti- tled to produce one good film a year...
This is material of some intellectual heft, clearly of college level. Both scenes, however, involve eleven- to 15-year-olds on the second floor of Walter Reed Junior High in North Hollywood, Calif. The youngsters are among the 150 academic superstars enrolled in Reed's Individualized Honors Program (IHP), perhaps the most successful junior-high curriculum...
...wrong way. "It's a whole new way of working," says Gardner. "I can't seem to calm down." She took to the tube "mainly for the money," she admits, and expects to return to her home in London as soon as her Landing shooting schedule is finished in Hollywood. "Oh television," sighs Gardner. "It's awfully small, isn't it?" But she is welcome in any size...
Some people graduate from Hollywood to superpower negotiations. Samantha Smith, 12, is doing it the other way around. Ever since Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov replied to her letter about world peace with an invitation to Moscow in 1983, the schoolgirl from Manchester, Me., has basked in international celebrity, chatting on TV talk shows and lecture podiums from New York to Tokyo, and writing a book about her peace initiative (Journey to the Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street...