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...Then again, as Groucho might have said, Avatar is better than no tar at all. The happy news for 20th Century Fox, which laid out about $400 million for the movie's production and marketing budgets, is that Avatar mimicked Titanic in pulling in more than twice as much coin abroad ($160 million and counting). Other hopeful auguries: Avatar pulled an A+ rating from CinemaScore's tally of people who had just seen the movie; its score from reviewers in the Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes samplings is a robust 83%; and it has no serious competition until next March...
...tricky balance, especially in a year that saw a series of sensitive anniversaries. March marked one year after riots broke out in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa; June was the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown; and - biggest of all - on Oct. 1, China marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Online censorship followed each in near lockstep. China blocked YouTube in March, Twitter in June and various proxy and virtual-private-network services - used to bypass domestic blocks and access to overseas websites - ahead of the National Day celebration. China's Web censors blocked...
Bringing Pandora to Life Despite Cameron's success with Titanic - the highest-grossing movie of all time and winner of a record-tying 11 Oscars - Avatar was not an easy sell to his home studio, 20th Century Fox. Since 1997, Cameron had been largely absent from the Hollywood scene, riding in submersibles, shooting documentaries and building new filmmaking toys. In 2005, Fox funded a $10 million, 5-min. prototype for the movie, but when Cameron delivered a 153-page draft of the script months later, the studio balked. Here was an ambitious project with a lot of risky elements, including...
...years, I had a plan for my 20th high school reunion: I was going to hire a giant-breasted hooker with lots of makeup and tell everyone she was my wife. Unfortunately, my actual wife Cassandra totally didn't get why it was funny for her to stay with my mom in New Jersey while I went out with a hooker. She wasn't even willing to dress like a hooker, though she did tell me not to wear a blazer because it would look as if I was trying too hard to impress my classmates. I thought...
...into English, "much preferring to translate classical Chinese literature instead," he wrote in his 2002 autobiography, White Tiger. Yang translated works including The Odyssey and Pygmalion into Chinese, and he and his wife collaborated on rendering selections from Sima Qian's Records of the Historian and stories by the 20th century writer Lu Xun into English...