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...action outside the Washington Hilton: and the next night it was just a matter of settling back into their easy chairs to tune into the Oscars. And, eerily, as the ceremonies got underway, the familiar glitz and glamor began to resonate with echoes of the previous day's tragedy. "Hooray for Hollywood," sang the chorus-line that opened the show and their refrain became a bizarre theme-song for the events of the day before; there really was a lot of Hollywood mixed in with the shooting of President Reagan, and it all seemed to come together at the Academy...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Hooray for Hollywood | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD. The land of celluloid has finally hit the big time, finally created a spectacle that will spawn sequels, and spinoffs and sell popcorn for ever. And the most fitting irony came at the conclusion of the Oscars: the award for best picture of the year went to a movie that tried to enter the world of ordinary people. The shooting of President Reagan was the horrifying result of ordinary people trying to enter the world of the movies...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Hooray for Hollywood | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

Until USA and USSR reduce their stockpiles, China won't play the non proliferation game. Hooray for Peking! Henry Ratliff

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...Hooray, Paul Seabury! Finally, someone states publicly what this nation is in need of-common sense. He is saying what this family of middle-class America has been saying too: We'll put up with dirtier air, even dirtier intelligence tactics and less than saintly politicians if, in exchange, we can have lower unemployment, respect from other nations and a strong leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1980 | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...sappy puns and the bedlam chases, in this instance through the byzantine corridors of Tony Walton's red-wallpapered dollhouse of a set. Dick Vosburgh splices his own lines into the action as if he had collaborated on the films. To use a song title from the show: Hooray for Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pixyland | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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