Word: tycooning
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...most promiscuous miss in town, well-nigh a nymphomaniac; that I was, get this, a Moaner, a Screamer, a Scratcher; that I was the Body-by-Fisher Fisher (I wasn't) and as a baby heiress I'd been promised to a son of my daddy's tycoon pal; that I was a Lesbian...
...DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after its publication. At that point in his career, Mailer found the challenge of the novel paralyzingly demanding. In the appraisal which followed the finishing of the work, Mailer revealed that he had decided to make...
...town in the 50s. Without overstatement, and with great attention to detail, the film sympathetically unmasks the quiet desperation that underlies its characters' existence. The acting is perfect, and the movie is wisely shot in black and white. Cybil Shepard's role as the spoiled daughter of an oil tycoon is the performance that started her movie career. Cinema...
Citizen Kane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother) Orson Welles...
Citizen Cane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother). Orson Welles...