Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want you all to see the riv-er the way I see the riv-er," he says, letting the word roll out slowly, a promise of ineffable revelations to come. Events such as this, designed to show off a candidate's small-town heart, tend to feel like Hollywood location shoots--superimposed on a place. Bradley wants to prove he has a real connection to this one. But first he has to find his wife. "Ernestine...
...movie studio, book publishing, a magazine division and the fledgling WB network. And the Viacom-CBS deal has again piqued the longstanding yearning of Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner (who once made a run at CBS) to buy NBC, the only major network not affiliated with a Hollywood studio. That's not likely to happen, since Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin seems satisfied with the WB and the company's collection of cable networks...
...television viewers, the merger should result in an explosion of cross promotions. Don't be surprised to see plugs for NFL football on MTV or specials about upcoming Paramount pictures airing on CBS. Hollywood producers fret that corporate priorities could distort programming decisions. "This can stifle creativity," says Brad Grey, chairman of management firm Brillstein-Grey and producer of HBO's The Sopranos. "These large companies want to put their own shows on the air first and foremost...
...that time there were only five or six Lampoon people in Hollywood that people had heard of," he says...
...Hollywood, there is resentment against Harvard people," Oakley says. "Sometimes people have to go through extra hoops because people think they have coasted by on their Harvard friends...