Word: tinseltown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated to a message from Old Trouper Ronald Reagan, whose ties to Tinseltown remain close and fond...
Screenwriters may be low on Tinseltown's totem pole, but they have one obvious advantage over more glamorous folk, like stars and directors: they get paid whether their movies are made or not. Paramount's vice president of production, David Madden, estimates that 900 to 1,000 assigned-scriptwriters are in the "or not" category, turning out scripts that are shown around town, perhaps optioned, then stuffed back into the desk drawer...
...viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than the blockbuster numbers predicted for the glitzy tale of Tinseltown...
Beforehand, it was uncool to care: the world's quadrennial white elephant was lumbering toward Tinseltown, and so what? And besides, the Russians weren't coming; the Russians weren't coming. But by the time the great Rafer Johnson made it up the Coliseum's endless stairs, cynicism was lifting like those white balloons with the funny red and blue tails. The Games were going to be grand after all. For two glorious weeks, Americans sat transfixed in front of their TV sets, thrilling to heroes they had never heard of a month earlier. The images that flickered across...
Hollywood, the shotgun marriage of art and industry, is never more schizophrenic than at Christmas. With its few "serious" movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year long, daring to ask for a big shiny Oscar. But with its "entertainment"pictures, Hollywood yearns to play Kriss Kringle, filling every Christmas stocking with a cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with...