Word: hyping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near London were placid. But Robert Redford compares the set to a tent in the eye of a storm. "We just prayed we could get finished with our work before the tent crumpled in on us or was simply blown away. The storm, of course, was all of that hype and promotional bullshit Paramount arranged that threatened to destroy...
...suspense-and the hype-is nearly at an end. Gatsby will finally have its premiere in New York March 27 with the last big burst of ballyhoo: an old-fashioned gala replete with truckloads of white roses, pounds of caviar and enough breast of pheasant to endanger the species. After that, audiences across the country will get the chance to make the kind of choice only they can make: to go to the movies and see Gatsby or stay home and read the book...
...that 1973 was such a remarkable year. There were the hits (Deep Throat) the bombs (Lost Horizon), the sensations (Last Tango in Paris) and the sensation-mongers (The Exorcist), the uppers (Happy New Year) and the downers (Slither), the hype-mades (The Long Goodbye), the homemades (Joyce at 34) and the readymades (Paper Moon and The Paper Chase--real paste-up jobs), the libbers (A Doll's House), the lobbers (Bang the Drum Slowly), and the cops and robbers movies playing red-light green-light with the good-guy hot seat--clearly the list eludes an all-embracing label...
State of Siege. Costa-Gavras' latest political drama (following Z and The Confession) written by Franco Solinas who scripted The Battle of Algiers. It was hailed as a masterpiece by one local Marxist critic, and as a radical hype by Pauline Kael. She liked the message of the movie which castigated American imperialism; what she disliked, and rightly, was he slick surface that injects the message into your veins without giving you the data needed to consider the issues raised. Yves Montand has the sort of impeccably cool father face perfect for the part he plays. His role is based...
...Musically, we're fine," says Buzz. "But in other ways, we need a lot more before we go anywhere. You need some image to hype. We haven't developed that yet. And you need original material. We don't really have that yet either." The stage at the Oxford Ale House is so cramped with equipment that there is not enough room for a two-step, let alone spectacular leaps, but the band feels that playing constantly will let a more natural personal style emerge. "We're getting a good feel for the music we like best," Glenn says. "Country...