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Sharp portrait of a death in '50s L.A. inspires a hooray for 'Hollywoodland': 'HOLLYWOODLAND' (star)(star)(star)1/2.(Movie review)
Byline: Michael Phillips
Sep. 8--Like George Reeves, the tall, dark, handsome and frustrated actor who played Superman on early television and on screen in "Superman and the Mole-Men," the new film "Hollywoodland" may have a hard time establishing itself in the marketplace. Directed by Allen Coulter, a TV alum ("Sex and the City," "The Sopranos") making an impressive feature film debut, the picture doesn't whip up the usual blather or pathos. It's better than that. It unfolds in a confidential key, and it's very observant in the ways the omnipresent film industry seeps into everyone's pores in L.A., land of the rising smog and the perfumed scent of highly compensated failure. With so much studio-bankrolled fear and loathing, plus just enough outrageous success to make the place seem glamorous, Hollywood--Old Hollywood, when people had manners--couldn't help but go crazy and start shooting once in a while. "Hollywoodland" treats its subjects, including Reeves and his much-debated death at age 45, not as larger-than-life or pathetically smaller-than-life, but simply life-sized. ...
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