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Your support makes all the difference.Famous film trade mag Variety is adapting for the web by killing off its daily print edition in favour of a once-a-week edition and removing its online paywall. In its honour here are some of its best inside-Hollywood lexicographical inventions (dubbed slanguage):
Whammo/boffo/socko – a sensation/outstanding/very good
Oater – a Western (what horses eat)
Chopsocky – martial arts movie
Cleffers – songwriters
Self-distribbed – independently distributed
Cume – cumulative total
A click – a hit
Ducats – tickets
Ankle – to be fired
The Lion – MGM
Kudoscast – awards show
(The) o.o. – the onceover
Percenter – agent
Solon – an authority (from Athenian lawgiver, Solon)
Topline(r) – to star (the star)
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