Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spirit cigarette and smiling at the video monitor. Lynch is shooting a scene for Mulholland Drive, his new 1-hr. series expected to premiere this fall on ABC. The show follows two women--one an innocent, the other a vixen with a shady past--whose lives intersect in contemporary Hollywood. As the cameras roll, a Yellow taxi drives up, depositing an ethereal-looking blond at the gate. She pauses breathlessly, then struts through--on her way, she hopes, to becoming a star. Six takes later, Lynch is satisfied. "Cut!" he snaps into his bullhorn...
...third of the children adopted from the public foster-care system are placed with families of a different race. And in the past decade, the number of children adopted from China, for example, has jumped from less than 200 to more than 4,000. You see it even in Hollywood, where Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Michelle Pfeiffer are parents of adopted nonwhite children...
Entrapment isn't the only film in recent years to pair up an elder Hollywood statesman with a blooming industry "It" girl. Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow epitomized the generation gap in A Perfect Murder, and we saw the pattern again in Six Days, Seven Nights, starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche. And let's not forget the shameful age difference from The Horse Whisperer...
...guessing until the last minute, it succeeds without the presence of an actual story. Though the plot is thin, the directing is striking, and the stars make up for the lack of substance. Admittedly, the film itself seems to be an excuse to showcase the talents of two of Hollywood's hottest players...
...suggests an almost puzzling degree of transcendence, particularly for a film so grounded in the nitty-gritty of day-to-day existence and friendship. But we can call this depiction of straightforward humanity transcendent if we consider the implicitly condescending subhumanity of much schlock oh, the heady effluvia of Hollywood's dream factory...