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...unlikely that Hollywood can ever return to its former glory. Los Angeles and its suburbs have gone west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The movie stars, the affluent and much of the industry have moved along with them to Beverly Hills and Malibu. Left behind is the shell-streets still hugged by low buildings, as in some abandoned Midwestern downtown. Yet, even today, the name Hollywood retains its mystical appeal. In a sense the name and the place diverged long ago-the name symbolic of faded glamour; the place filled with the shiftless, the criminal and the crazy...
...mission to strengthen the Western alliance. Said he: "I know there are some who question the value of the alliance, who view it as cumbersome and at times unresponsive to the need for action. And there are those people still, in our land, who yearn for the isolationist shell. But because we've rejected those other courses back over the recent decades, there has been peace for almost 40 years on the Western front...
...back to the person I was before all the glamour and notoriety. Rocky is a once-in-a-lifetime coming together of self and character." But now that they are together, Stallone realizes he may never leave his alter ego entirely behind. "I'm in a shell that will never incubate to the point of hatching, and I have finally accepted that fact," he says...
...Yankee to the last finger bone. He was so in love with the specific that one scholar managed to compute, from the sun's angle, the time and date of the scene depicted in one of his paintings of rowers training on the Schuylkill, The Pair-Oared Shell; they went under the bridge, give or take a few seconds, at 7:20 p.m. on either May 28 or July...
...Jaws. A 55-day shooting schedule ballooned to 155 days; the $4 million budget soared to $8 million. Studio executives were threatening to close down the film and put "Bruce," the shark, on exhibit as part of the Universal City tour. The crew was wavering daily between seasickness and shell shock. "It was almost Mutiny on the Bounty," Spielberg recalls, gleefully mixing his analogies, "with me tied to Moby Dick." But audiences responded to the film with the same question that Steven's mentor, Sid Sheinberg, asked when he first saw it: "Isn't there any more...