Primetime Emmy |
| Outstanding Film Editing for a Limited Series or a Special |
Hollywood WIVES is good, fun entertainment! Coming out in 1983, at the heart and height of DYNASTY and DALLAS fame, Hollywood WIVES is a prime example of a time when miniseries used to be enjoyable and could hold your attention for 3 days!
Never have I seen such great talent assembled for such dreck! A guilty pleasure that's all pleasure, Jackie Collins spins nasty rumors with deft improbability to create the National Enquired version of Hollywood.
Lies, murder, incest, prostitution, skeletons, sex, adultery, fashion, and back stabbing, you get this all here in Jackie Colins's trashy novel, which comes to life in this spectacular mini-series. The theme song alone is worth owning a copy of this miniseries.
Every once in a while when you sit down in front of the TV to be entertained, you don't want to have to think or analyze or correlate anything that you're watching. Sometimes you just want to put your brain on hold and watch pretty people in pretty costumes having pretty problems.
Suzanne Summers! Candace Bergen!
***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** Hollywood Wives is a good movie if you like 80s mini-series based on the works of Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins (or maybe even those silly 2 hour Danielle Steele adaptations). It isn't as good as Scruples or I'll Take Manhattan but it is better than Til We Meet Again or Malibu, about on-par with Bare Essence.
I can only imagine that in the mid-80s actors like Anthony Hopkins, Angie Dickinson, Candace Bergen and Robert Stack must have all needed sudden cash infusions. For what other reason would they agree to star in a miniseries so ridden with bad dialogue that it makes "Saved by the Bell" look like Masterpiece Theater.
