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...College weight gain stops after the first year, and after fifteen pounds)—these are all concerns we might be tempted to associate with female undergrads. Yet, while the female population is brimming with disturbed weight and body image concerns, these problems are spilling over the gender barrier; the incidence of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder—a pathology characterized by preoccupations with an imagined physical defect—is on the rise among the male populations in Western societies. Unfortunately, the general population remains all but oblivious to those men who suffer from disorders more...
...Today, a barrier to true justice has been removed,” Eck said...
...rave culture. There's another reason directors working in German keep finding new ways to explore the humor and drama within their own culture: money. Modern domestic themes don't require hefty budgets; historical epics and blockbusters do. That's why Perfume is being filmed in English. "The language barrier is a big barrier," says Eichinger. "You cannot do big-budget movies in Germany because of the limited market. I think the generation making movies today is much more oriented toward a global film language." His own production company, Constantin Film, is one of few to survive the 2000 collapse...
...Wong may have broken through the Hollywood race barrier, but her success didn't help others; no studio boss told his casting director, "Get me another Anna May Wong!" It didn't even help her. When Hollywood made movies about Chinese people, it simply put white actors in "yellowface." The term is a misnomer. Whereas a white actor playing a black was obliged to dab cork to darken the visage, a white playing an "Oriental" character didn't change face color but applied spirit gum to give the eyes a higher slant...
...Carey never gets Japan quite right, but his writer's eyes always appreciate what they see. Near the end of their trip, father and son luck into a meeting with filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. The language barrier, the cultural barrier, every barrier falls away as the delighted anim? master shows flip-books of his early work, the characters dancing with life on the corner of the page. "Thank God we had no language," muses Carey. "Thank God there were no questions to ask, just the privilege of sharing the joy of a great artist telling a story to an audience...