Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, Hollywood has had difficulty finding five best-film nominees and five best-female actor nominees. While the former category is still weak, this year there were more than enough candidates for best female actor. Some female studio executives regard this increase in good women's roles as a mere fluke and not the sign of a shift in Hollywood. Others cite the increase in women directors, producers and executives, as well as the influence of stars like Emma Thompson and Nicole Kidman, who were pivotal in creating "Sense and Sensibility" and "To Die For." Note, however, that three...
...says she auditioned for the part in the Nickelodeon production at the end of last summer, and the studio taped six episodes over winter break...
Anyone could write these toss-aways. But only McCartney was writing Yesterday, an instant-classic melody that boasted an unusual seven-bar chorus and producer George Martin's string-quartet underscoring. Anthology 2 has two archival gems: the song's first studio take, with Paul calling out chords to the sidemen, and its first public rendition, to which he brings a Liverpudlian tang ("Now it lukes as though they're here to stay") and a choirboy's urgent purity...
Maybe once a year, a big studio trots out a big picture with similarly sympathetic gay characters in leading roles: To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar last year, Philadelphia before that. Is this enough to constitute enlightenment...
...film studio. For the final irony is that Hollywood, with its dozens of gay stars, its hundreds of gays in positions of creative and executive power, is afraid to depict homosexual life--the world it knows and could persuasively dramatize. The whole town, timid as ever, prefers to reside in one huge, beautifully appointed celluloid closet. Or a gilded birdcage with a cover over it. The world looks safe and cozy from inside. Why would anyone want to come...