Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters and was forcibly sedated. Rita Jenrette, whose husband John was convicted for taking bribes in Abscam, used her 15 minutes of celebrity to pose in Playboy, reveal that she and John had known each other very well on the steps of the Capitol and land a role in Hollywood's Zombie Island Massacre...
With a lavishness that the Sultan of Brunei might envy, Disney threw a premiere party last week in Orlando to introduce its lavish movie theme park. It was a way of telling Hollywood, "Hey, guys, the magic is back. And we brought it. To Florida." The new attraction at Disney World is the golden Mouseketeer cap on the head of Chairman Michael Eisner...
...Brunei might envy, Disney threw itself a premiere party last weekend and invited a few friends: Audrey Hepburn, George Burns, Willie Nelson, Kevin Costner, the Pointer Sisters, "Buffalo" Bob Smith and 6,000 journalists. The do, trumpeted in by an NBC special, was Disney's way of telling Hollywood, "Hey, guys, the magic is back. And we brought it. To Florida...
...Hollywood needs a regeneration, and the role of spokesman that I singularly failed at is still available to someone -- someone smarter than me, someone American, a person who can articulate on behalf of the greater film community the frustration and the need for change...
...build from scratch. But even those well-intentioned souls who hope to expand or restore an old house find that remodeling can be much more expensive than wrecking it and starting over. Anyway, in most cases the existing homes bear no resemblance to the sugarplums dancing in many Hollywood heads. Many of the mansions under construction, ornate stone boxes known among architects as "birthday cakes," average roughly 10,000 sq. ft.; the typical American home is 2,000 sq. ft. Among the popular features are recording studios, tanning parlors, servants' quarters, double kitchens (one for catering) and motorized chandeliers. Outside...