Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis didn't pick Lloyd Bentsen to be his running mate. The Duke chose Jimmy Stewart, one of Hollywood's greatest actors. It's time to break the news, all you delegates in Atlanta. Don't be fooled...
What can Bush do now? Pick Bob Dole? Name any movie Bob Dole has starred in. Even if Bush does choose an actor to balance out the Stewart factor, who will he turn to? Sly Stallone? Robert Mitchum? Stewart is Hollywood. He is the last of the great film giants, a guaranteed box-office smash...
...Video's machine (price: $700) would be the only such VCR on the market. But the company claims its plan has been thwarted by a conspiracy of Japanese and South Korean electronics giants, which have refused to sell the company VCR parts it needs. Go-Video also blames Hollywood studios, which regard dual- deck machines as tools for pirating movies and which have allegedly pressured foreign VCR-makers to keep them off the market. Go-Video has named dozens of film and electronics companies in a lawsuit that is expected to go to trial next year. The firm hopes...
...Olmos is no impossible dreamer when it comes to Hollywood's new receptivity to Hispanics, which he regards as a direct result of market forces. "The industry is run on economics," Olmos observes. "It knows only one color: green. There's prejudice, sure. But economics makes it go away...
...Like any Hollywood animal, Olmos thinks on a grand scale, in broad, confident strokes. It is not inconceivable that he might play Hamlet or Kowalski. Or he might take on heroes like Coriolanus or Willy Loman. But consider this option: suppose he decided to develop a movie, Spielberg-style, about a Hispanic family in the suburbs, coping the American way. Instead of a tragic figure, he would be playing Eddie Average. (Then perhaps Eddie II and III). It would be Close Encounters of a fresh new kind, and the vast audience watching the melodrama might also start to recognize...