Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greed lost its lure in Hollywood? Is wearing scrubs and working with chest paddles so onerous? Do television stars really still believe they can be successful in the movies? These were among the disquieting questions raised last week when JULIANNA MARGULIES rebuffed a $27 million offer to remain on ER for two more seasons. After six years of playing nurse Carol Hathaway, Margulies is intent on pursuing her film career. "We wish her well and know that she will be successful in all her endeavors," said ER executive producer John Wells. Perhaps Wells hasn't seen The Newton Boys, Margulies...
...sparse, highlighting the intertwining riffs which pop from guitar to bass to trumpet to sax and back. "Sexx Laws" and its driving horns might come straight from the James Brown songbook; other tunes could back up gangsta rap (though it's unlikely Method Man would tolerate this couplet, from "Hollywood Freaks": "We drop lobotomy beats/Evaporated meats"). The fantastically mellow "Debra" even features an impassioned falsetto vocal delivered to the world's most sensuous J.C. Penney clerk. "I wanna get with you," Beck says. "And your sister. I think her name's Debra...
...director of the 1988 hit Beetlejuice and 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Since Batman, Burton has enjoyed the special type of freedom that comes with success, working with bigger budgets and studios willing to take a risk on his ideas. But despite being embraced by Hollywood, Burton has managed to retain his distinctive cinematic flavor as well to provide entertaining and memorable films...
...release of Burton's next film, and his return to directing. Ed Wood told the story of Hollywood's most famous bad director (played by Johnny Depp), who, in the '50s, made a number of awful films, the epitome being the infamous Plan 9 From Outer Space. The film handles Wood's story delicately, never mocking the character but rather focusing on the earnestness that is at the heart of Wood's "best" work...
...Hollywood, it's time to meet Chris Eitzmann...