Word: movieland
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...Movieland is the ideal roost for a young refugee with big ideas. "Do not listen to the envious and the insensate," warns Pyat. "The illusion of Hollywood is thoroughly tangible." Anything is possible with the Old World in ruins, and Pyat will try anything. He buys a 13-year-old prostitute and reinvents her as a lost soul mate from his Russian childhood; he tours the U.S. as a lecturer for the Ku Klux Klan...
...GLITTER DOME (HBO). James Garner and John Lithgow were two burned-out detectives in this taut, cynical adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's novel about murder in movieland. Possibly the best movie yet made...
...Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart from a potential loser into the year's first big media event. This Friday night, thousands...
...poor reviews. The New York Times called it "an unqualified disaster." The film's distributor, United Artists, withdrew it from N.Y. theaters after only one week. Cimino promised to re-edit the film from its 225 minutes to a more conventional length of 2 1/2 hours. Unprecedented humiliation in Movieland...
...says, "very few superstars in Movieland could cut that kind of mustard...