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Reality-tour sponsors boast of building a "new grass-roots internationalism." But was it titillated voyeurism or earnest solidarity that the vacationers in Zapatista Land felt as the weathered campesinos of San Andres Sakamch'en pulled on their ski masks? A measure of both is what keeps reality tourists coming back for more...
...artistic glums, only 5% of all films released last year earned a profit. Wai and To want to be in that 5%. So they'll make, as well as they can, anything they think the audience wants. What to artier directors would be a confession is to To a boast: "I change with the audience. I have to get them into the theaters?that's my sole aim." He gets them in, and he makes them pay. That's why the Hong Kong film industry pronounces To as in "dough...
...Reality-tour sponsors boast of building a "new grass-roots internationalism." But was it titillated voyeurism or earnest solidarity that the vacationers in Zapatista Land felt as the weathered campesinos of San Andres Sakamch'en pulled on their ski masks? A measure of both is what keeps reality tourists coming back for more...
Okay, so "American Pie 2: Music from the Motion Picture" does not boast any material likely to join "Lara's Theme" from "Dr. Zhivago" and the overture from "Gone With the Wind" in the pantheon of soundtrack music treasured by successive generations. But the album, released by Universal a week before the movie opened last weekend to the tune of $45 million, bears scrutiny as a document of our age. Considered in combination with the movie, it offers an image of contemporary middle-class teenagers that differs widely from the image presented in the teen movies and music...
...this day, he says that part of him regrets not following his first aptitude, mathematics, and becoming an engineer. His thought patterns are still those of a scientist or mathematician, and he likes to boast that political and policy issues can all be solved with enough analysis and scientific reasoning. "Everything I do, I research and find a scientific answer," he says. "If the analysis is right, I'm never reluctant to make a decision." This is the hubris of the technocrat, one who believes he can wear down Thailand's problems with sheer studiousness...