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for the favors of a beautiful,
helpless woman, and Single
White Female, which depicts
the ruthlessness of a woman
scorned, are two others he
points to in that category.
Too often, says the writer,
producers opt for the abnor-
mal over the normal, confus-
ing the sordid with the
significant. "In Hollywood,
if you want to impress
gorgeous starlets, critics and
the heavyweights —and all
in the business do — you'd
rather do a (homosexually
oriented) My Private Idaho
— where they had to sub-
poena people to see it" than
a film about traditional
families and relationships.
"Hollywood forgets what
people want is to come out of
a movie after a couple of
hours and feel better than
when they came in."
Instead, says Mr. Medved,
too often he feels like soak-
ing in a tub when he leaves a
screening. "So many movies
today . . . you go in and feel
dirty after seeing them."
That isn't always the case,
he acknowledges. There are
some beauties out there
amid the dross. "I loved
Beauty and the Beast, says
Mr. Medved of the Oscar-
nominated animated film
from Disney.
"I saw it four times — and
.... ' paid the last two times.
(And, you know, critics never
'pay," he notes with a
chuckle.
Michael Medved also en-
joyed Sister Act, the unex-
pected smash hit starring
Whoopi Goldberg. "That was
an old-fashioned entertain-
ment," says Mr. Medved.
But does old still sell in a
world where new and im-
proved hold sway? "If they
made The Sound of
Music today, it would be a
Smash hit all over again,"
contends Mr. Medved in his
argument for quality.
Iowa cornfields aren't the
only place where "If you
build it, they will come," he
contends: Make a film the
fright way, says Mr. Medved,
and audiences will come,
'too.
Which is something
Hollywood, with its focus on
violent and profane-filled
movies, does not understand.
:_t- isn't so much "Hollywood
vs. America" as it is
Hollywood being its own
worst enemy, says the au-
thor.
Fans' shouts of "hooray for
Hollywood" seem to be
fading fast, replaced,
possibly, by the fallout of the
book. "I don't think
Hollywood has many cheer-
leaders today," says Michael
Medved. 0

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