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...helped pioneer. Since Disney popularized animation however, its creative potential has been largely underestimated and the genre has often been relegated to essentially childish themes. Even animated films such as “Toy Story” and “Up,” that received widespread critical acclaim, attained commercial success by marketing themselves as movies intended for pre-teens...
...Despite the acclaim, Thompson still pounds the streets for inspiration. "Street food is not always purely Thai food," he tells me on a stroll through Bangkok, his second home after London. "It's often food that's been imported from other cultures and assimilated." Satay hails from the Malay-speaking world. Khao man gai, a popular chicken-and-rice dish, was introduced by 19th century immigrants from China's Hainan province; their descendants still sell it on Bangkok streets. Pad Thai, perhaps Thailand's most recognized dish, is also indebted to China. "It's Chinese noodles stir-fried, but with...
British directors had exoticized Simmons' beauty; the Americans mostly domesticated it. She suited Hollywood's fondness for coming-of-age stories about the great and famous. In George Cukor's The Actress she played the teenage Ruth Gordon, desperate for Broadway acclaim; in The Young Bess Simmons was a budding Queen of England, co-starring with her first husband, Stewart Granger. She ornamented De Mille-style antique epics like The Robe and The Egyptian, which required only that she look good and speak well. And she went up against Brando first in the 1954 Desirée, where...
...despite the critical acclaim garnered by his scholarly work, such as “The Death of Comedy,” Segal is perhaps best known for his contributions to popular culture—specifically the 1970 romantic drama “Love Story...
...tell you: she was a talented film and TV actress who, in life, didn't win the acclaim she dreamed of and might have deserved. But above all, Brittany Murphy was the immortal voice of Luanne Platter on the Fox cartoon show King of the Hill. (See pictures of Brittany Murphy's movie career...