Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vets looking for prerelease buzz. So the industry blessed it on one condition: within 18 months, when a standard is adopted that allows piracy-protected music to be sold online, the electronics companies agree to make their players compliant. What's next? Digitally pirated movies. Get ready, Hollywood...
...Hollywood may be a grownup version of high school, but you're not actually supposed to bring along your principal. Unfortunately, SETH MACFARLANE, 25, creator of the animated Fox series The Family Guy, had little choice in the matter. Shortly before his show's post-Super Bowl debut last January, MacFarlane was contacted by his former headmaster, the Rev. Richardson Schell. The principal asked MacFarlane to change the last name he had bestowed on his buffoonish cartoon clan, as it was also the surname of Schell's longtime assistant. MacFarlane refused. Schell got epistolary. With homemade letterhead boasting the name...
...directors. For the moment, slasher films are deader than a naked cheerleader. Horror is going both artsy, in the Method madness of The Blair Witch Project, and adult, in the domestic suspense of Stir of Echoes. Renouncing sicko-kid melodramas for a mix of ghost stories and satanic parables, Hollywood is pursuing subtler demons, deeper themes: matters of life and death, life after death and life just before death...
...school, and you will hear worse profanity and more sexually explicit conversations than in most R-rated movies. Walk across the street from the school, and you will often observe violence and drug use. The effect of seeing violence or hearing sexually explicit talk should not be pinned on Hollywood. It starts with parents. The kids copy the parents, and other youngsters copy those kids. Maybe we should start rating our homes and schools rather than our movies. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Mount Vernon...
...contrast to the times when hollywood stereotyped Chinese men as a bunch of Charlie Chans, Bruce Lee triumphed against the odds and showed the West a living, breathing Chinese superman. Lee represents the struggle of American minorities who are treated unfairly because of the color of their skin. WIBOWO SUMARDJO Auckland, New Zealand...