Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pity the poor Virginias of our time who sit through No Small Affair. They can watch one of the best aspiring comic actors of our time put up with a fantasy that never goes away. Imagine the letter Virginia would get in Charles's particular version of the Hollywood world. "Dear Virginia: there is a Sama Claus. And you can have a date and a meaningful relationship with him this Thursday." Clerk J. Freshman
...slogan to give his campaign coherence. Said David Garth, a New York media maven: "I didn't know what the Mondale theme was . . . except 'Vote for Mondale-Ferraro.' " The Democrat's aides defended their approach as the more realistic. "We aren't running a Hollywood feel-good campaign," said Mondale Consultant Judy Press Brenner to Adweek. Toward the end, the Mondale messages grew more effective, focusing on fairness, arms control and the future. The most gripping was a five-minute film intercutting shots of awed youngsters and nuclear missiles hurtling skyward, accompanied by Crosby Stills...
...obsession with glamour seems a throwback to the glittery fantasy worlds that Hollywood created in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, then largely abandoned for social relevance and downbeat realism in the '60s and '70s. "I think the public has been starved for glamour for a long time," says Joan Collins, 51, who was a well-traveled but undistinguished movie actress before achieving superstardom on Dynasty (and posing in the nude for Playboy last year). "I grew up watching beautiful actresses like Ava Gardner, Hedy Lamarr and Elizabeth Taylor. Getting away from one's mundane existence...
...beautiful women, however, are serving a quite different function from their predecessors in movies and TV. Unlike most of the movie queens of Hollywood's golden age, or such TV stars of recent vintage as Jaclyn Smith and Suzanne Somers, the current bevy of beauties are not sex symbols so much as role models for their own sex. Many of them are approaching, or have proudly arrived at, middle age, and their fans are mostly admiring women, not ogling men. Dynasty's audience is 58% female, Hotel's 61%. Nearly half the women viewers of both shows...
...well. Part of the journeying will be through a parallel world called the Territories, a kind of theme-park Camelot, where "they have magic like we have physics." Some earthlings have "twinners" there-Jack's mother is, almost, the dying Queen Laura, and his uncle Morgan, a greedy Hollywood agent, is a medieval menace who lurks in the shadows...