Word: tinseltown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ready or not, Hollywood is greasing the way for another John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Newcomers Michelle Pfeiffer and Maxwell Caulfield, both 22, have been cast in a sequel to the $181 million blockbuster musical Grease. With familiar Tinseltown inventiveness, the new film has been titled Grease 2. More than 500 actors competed for the leads. "There were so many talented people that it became just looks and chemistry," concedes Pfeiffer, a looker. Caulfield, an Englishman who is married to Actress Juliet Mills, 40, feels the musical "will be as good as if not better than the original." Says...
...spirit in which he speaks-realistic, humorous, but with feeling-is precisely what claims one's respect for On Golden Pond. When it sometimes seems the whole society has spiritually decamped for Tinseltown, the movie offers the hope that people can come home again-at least for a visit...
...insults, come-ons and general greetings. Along the sidewalk-the famous chocolate terrazzo sidewalk embedded with bronze-edged stars framing the names of superstars-gang members defiantly stake out their turf. There are police on horseback, on motorcycles, on foot, in plainclothes. Knots of bewildered tourists, looking for Tinseltown, realize they have wandered into a weekend war zone...
Some variant of this story has been told, filmed and staged many times: Making and Losing It in Tinseltown. Carpenter does not try to extend this formula, but neither does he take it seriously. The plot is chiefly an excuse for the author to insert some of the inside information about Hollywood that he picked up over the twelve years he worked there. He shows how deals are made, who gets the money and how easily a film project can go into turnaround, i.e., fall apart. Luckily, Carpenter's breezy, irreverent story hangs together...
Flashbulbs popped and reporters shouted questions when a jubilant Carol Burnett emerged from Los Angeles county superior court last week, hugging fans and signing autographs for jurors. After eight days of testimony and three of deliberation, the jurors had provided a classic Tinseltown ending to a televised trial that was followed as avidly as a soap opera. They awarded Burnett a whopping $1.6 million in damages in her libel suit against the sensation-seeking National Enquirer (circ. 5,100,000). Said the relieved star: "There...