Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer doesn't wear a tuxedo anymore. He wears a necktie, though, and he mixes with the stars. While he was waiting to be seated for lunch at the Ivy in West Hollywood one day, Zsa-Zsa Gabor and her mother mistook him for the maitre d' and asked him to show them to their table. She called him "Darling." He still hasn't decided if he should have called her Miss Gabor, or just plain...
...dangerously unpredictable consequences. The Paramount bid came just 2 1/2 weeks before shareholders of Time and Warner Communications were to vote on merging their firms into the world's largest media company, with total revenues of $10 billion. But the sudden strike by Paramount, whose operations include one of Hollywood's top movie-and-TV studios and the giant publishing house Simon & Schuster, disrupted those plans and threatened to provoke a free-for-all in which the ownership of all three communications giants could be up for grabs...
...about what kind of company this will produce. No one knows where this sort of runaway sled ends up," said Richard Christian, associate dean at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Declared a Los Angeles-based securities analyst: "This is going to be the greatest battle that Hollywood has ever seen...
...limits. To duplicate prerecorded movies, for instance, requires two VCRs awkwardly cabled together. No wonder, then, that fans at Chicago's Consumer Electronics Show last week were excited by a new machine that eliminates the drawback. Moreover, its appearance was a triumph over well- wired opposition in Tokyo and Hollywood...
...frame to fast-forward has not been easy. For starters, Go-Video could find no Japanese companies, which control manufacture of crucial VCR parts, willing to provide needed components. For another thing, U.S. movie studios opposed the machine. So the company sued 15 Japanese and Korean makers, plus the Hollywood studios, claiming restraint of trade. Several manufacturers have now settled with Go-Video, and Korea's Samsung is tooling up to produce the VCR-2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-Video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR-2 from copying movies protected by antitheft...