Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plunge from college straight into marriage. Indeed, she was out in the world from 1943 to 1952, first as a Marshall Field's shopgirl in Chicago, then as a bit-part Broadway actress, then as a successful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Still, even as she pursued a Hollywood career, she wanted everyone to understand that her hopes and dreams were safely conventional. Her "childhood ambition," she wrote on her MGM biographical questionnaire at 27, was "to be an actress." But her "greatest ambition" was "to have a successful, happy marriage." She listed some of her phobias: "superficiality, vulgarity especially...
...soon as she became a wife, she says in her autobiography, she would have been happy to give up her career. In fact, she continued to act. Married in March of 1952, a mother that October, she was back on a Hollywood sound stage filming Donovan's Brain before little Patti was two. She made four movies as a married woman, including Hellcats of the Navy, in which she co-starred with her husband. When Ron, the second child, was born in 1958, she was almost 37 and no longer acting in feature films. But two years later the Reagans...
...extreme, at times almost treacly. They call each other by diminutives: he's "Ronnie" and often she's "Mommy." At their California ranch, they paddle together in a canoe named TruLuv that was a 25th-anniversary present from "Ronnie." Every July on Nancy's birthday, Reagan calls David Jones' Hollywood flower shop and has a bouquet sent to Edith Davis, his mother-in-law. Says the florist: "He thanks her for giving him Nancy." Last Election Day, when the First Lady was still wobbly from a bad bump on the head received two days earlier, the President fretted so much...
...Pittsburgh's death row and lands smack on top of the warden's beautiful wife (Diane Keaton). Ron Nyswaner's script is based on fact--a 1901 jailbreak masterminded by the young matriarch who had fallen in love with one of the convicts--but the tone is pure High Hollywood elegiac. This is revolution as amour fou, which Diane Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) might seem to make a good protofeminist match...
Tell me, children, what did you get for Christmas? And the answer came in a choral blast that has rocked 2,006 moviehouses: Eddie Murphy! The 23-year-old alumnus of Saturday Night Live, whose first feature film (48 HRS.) was released just two years ago, is Hollywood's uncontested box-office champ. Beverly Hills Cop, a defiantly ordinary action picture that Murphy ignites with his urchin charm, is by far the runaway hit of this holiday season. In its first 23 days Cop earned $64.5 million--more than the combined take of its three closest competitors (Dune, City Heat...