Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past decade movie-theater queues have resembled waiting lines at a sock hop. Teenagers stormed the box office, and Hollywood cloned films in their image. Their favorite genres -- sci-fi fantasies, peekaboo sex farces, gross-out horror movies -- multiplied on the screen, and sequel followed sequel followed sequel. Who needed adults? Those forgotten creatures stayed home with their TV movies and VCRs. For them the local multiplex was a teenagers' tree house bearing the sign GROWNUPS STAY...
They are going back because Hollywood is making movies for them. Not one of 1987's top ten hits was aimed primarily at the youth market. Nor are films with brand names for teens guaranteed success: John Hughes' youth parables have lost some of their box-office luster, and the four films produced last year by Steven Spielberg were financial fizzles. Says MPAA President Jack Valenti: "The movie world no longer need be girdled round by boundaries set $ by the very young." Which is not to say that movies are better than ever -- only that, for the moment, Porky...
Gromyko's mostly leaden prose flutters when he describes a 1959 encounter with Marilyn Monroe at a Hollywood reception. "She was considered the embodiment of womanhood in the '60s," writes Gromyko. The star-struck diplomat sounds almost breathless when he recounts that Monroe "sat at a table across from us, literally five meters away." He adds, "As I was leaving, she suddenly called out, 'Mr. Gromyko, how are you?' She said it as if we were old friends." Gromyko dwells at length on Monroe's 1962 suicide, speculating that she was murdered by U.S. Government agents because of her supposed...
...strapless evening gown, dallied mischievously with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Vanity Fair shortly before their April 1986 wedding; this month the 32-year-old TV reporter's make-up routine is featured in a stunning photo sequence in Harper's Bazaar. And CBS Superstar Diane Sawyer, 42, radiated Hollywood-star presence in a set of sultry photographs in last September's Vanity Fair...
...magazine for the woman who wasn't born yesterday." At last, indeed. After a tempestuous 2 1/2-year start-up that had Manhattan media circles sniffing with disdain, readers this week will see the first issue of Lear's. The brainchild and namesake of Frances Lear, former wife of Hollywood Producer Norman Lear, the new magazine is dedicated to the proposition that "women over 40 -- yesterday's 'mad housewives' -- are today's sanest, most creative, most interesting Americans...