Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month of June was spent planning and developing a property in West Hollywood which I had calculated to be, first of all, one of the seven major harmonic convergence power foci, and second, the most undervalued commercial property on the West Coast. Unfortunately, it turned out to be neither, and not only did I lose a bundle, but the world will be obliterated by angry aliens at the turn of the century...
Almodovar's version of homosexual love is far more adventurous and honest than any of Hollywood's tame, schmaltzy attempts to portray gay relationships such as Making Love and Personal Best. Even the recent British films by Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Launderette and Prick Up Your Ears, which dealt with homosexuality intelligently and forthrightly, shied away from exploring sexual intimacy on a par with straight films. The graphic homosexual sex in Law of Desire may seem irresponsible in light of AIDS, but in Almodovar's world, caution is irrelevant...
...Hollywood is finding drama in South Africa' s racial turmoil, as a film about Black Leaders Nelson and Winnie Mandela shows...
...five years the American Top 40 Countdown, broadcast on a commercial station in Florida. By day he serves his country; by night, like many young Cubans, he dreams of escape. "If ever I get to the U.S.," he says with a wistful smile, "I could get a job in Hollywood. All my life I have learned how to act. Sometimes I smile inside, it is so crazy...
...they had been written by someone else. After a rehearsal he exclaimed, "I think the music is so marvelous -- I really don't believe I wrote it!" Gershwin's appetite for popularity, says his biographer, took him even further from the critics; he could never quite forsake the Hollywood sound stage for Carnegie Hall. When a producer accused him of aiming too high, Gershwin sent a reassuring message: "Rumors about highbrow music ridiculous . . . am out to write hits...