Word: hollywoodizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reiner is one of dozens of celebrities who have joined Hollywood's latest children's crusade. Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and Henry Winkler have all donated their names, their time and even their money to various kids' causes. Not only did Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw co-found the Children's Action Network, which makes educational films and sponsors immunization campaigns, but Spielberg also chairs the Starbright Foundation, an innovative charity group that deploys entertainment technologies to help ease the suffering of sick children...
...Hollywood's interest in a cause often means Big Money. A benefit movie premiere can raise up to $350,000 in a single night. Still, as Starbright managing director Chris Garvey notes, "Our board members give more than their money and Rolodexes. They relish the hands-on experience of dealing with children in hospitals...
...World War II, he meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue by the power of beauty/ ...this detachment/ The honored aesthetic evil..." Dickey took on a passing Hollywood glamour in the '70s, when Deliverance became a best seller and Burt Reynolds starred in the movie...
...World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre. "I'm not crazy about the way controversy is so important for independent films," she says. "This year it's lesbian punk rockers and heroin needles." But still, she's happy not to go Hollywood--yet. "First-time directors are much more thoughtful about their work," she says. "And first features happen only once...
...dead, "things she wanted to do--then she ups and dies. I don't wanna go out like that." Later he speaks one of the most introspective lines in the Afro-action canon: "Somehow I don't think this was my parents' dream for me." With Shakur's death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. Gridlock'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...