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...folks who run Hollywood??thought, Nobody's busy in December, so let's fill their idle hours with lots of movies--serious ones as well as silly. By one count, the studios are releasing 66 features this holiday season, up from an already ginormous 58 last year. (Just on their own, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet seem to be starring in about 30 of them.) Who has the spare time to consume all this fabulous entertainment, other than Donald Rumsfeld...
That is the least that could be said. Liza's friends liked coming to her house because they could play dress-up better there than anyplace else in Hollywood???or the world. Their dresses might be miniature versions of costumes from movies, for example a replica of a waltz gown worn by Deborah Kerr in The King...
...opinions are sclerotic and his face is beginning to crack like granite. Audiences now recognize him as a grandfather image, using booze for arterial Antifreeze, putting off winter for one more day. They also recognize Wayne as an actor of force and persuasion. And the frontier town of Hollywood???which has never granted Wayne a single Academy Award?has begun to realize that it might just be a little behind in its payments...
...verses, most noteworthy is a gibe at Hollywood??? and cinema, entitled "Naaman's Song." Excerpt...
...Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood???an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material...