Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...famous--and so nice," she remarks). Friel's stellar reviews include one from the New Yorker where she was described as the "powerhouse" of the play's cast and "a ravishing newcomer whose authenticity makes it impossible to take your eyes off her." Next week Friel will make her Hollywood debut in Michael Hoffman's movie version of Midsummer Night's Dream. She'll also be turning up at Cannes, as a modern single mother in the British comedy Mad Cows...
DIED. RORY CALHOUN, 76, rugged film and TV heartthrob; of complications from diabetes and emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. While horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...
WASHINGTON: Well, now we know the Littleton massacre was important: President Clinton's having a White House symposium about it. Educators, cops, Hollywood executives and gun-lobbyists alike, from Gloria Estefan to the CEO of Smith & Wesson, were all there Monday, and Clinton isn't pointing fingers at any of them. "We are not here to place blame, but to shoulder responsibility," he said in a brief statement before the gab-fest was closed to the media. He's got a better idea, a way to get to the head of the class on Littleton without upsetting anyone...
...government may not be talking about this, but Hollywood is," she said. "Go to the movies, and the bad guys are some breakaway Soviet republic with some horrible weapon...The popular culture is permeated with this...
...performances are fantastic. Witherspoon, proving herself the leader of the young Hollywood crew (if she had been running against a Katie Holmes overacheiver, she would stomp all over her), burns with her steely blue eyes (which tend to match her outfits) and pursed lips. Witherspoon wants Tracy to be a walking display of pyrotechnics--a winner at all costs. Broderick, as her nemesis, plays the hapless fool even better than he normal does. (Besides, we give him serious bonus points for having to walk around half the film with a bee-stung, infected eyelid...