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...close-knit community and Western-stoked confidence sometimes elicits grumbles from other Thais, who also resent their stranglehold on the entertainment industry. The ultimate blow came a few years back when Thailand sent a blue-eyed woman to the Miss World competition. Sirinya Winsiri, also known as Cynthia Carmen Burbridge, beat out another half-Thai, half-American for the coveted Miss Thailand spot. "Luk kreung have made it very difficult for normal Thais to compete," gripes a Bangkok music mogul. "We should put more emphasis on developing real Thai talent." The Eurasians consider this unfair. "I was born in Bangkok...
...It’s pretty much the same. I like working in theater. I’m working with Ossie Davis. We all learn from each other, writers, musicians. You can’t segregate yourself. Take Harold Nicholas, who passed recently. I worked with him on a movie, Carmen Jones. He sang, he danced, he acted, performed on instruments. The Nicholas Brothers were the reason, indirectly, that blacks could go into white theaters...
...part of the reason that budgets are so out of control in Hollywood these days is that people tend to forget that moviemaking is essentially like a magic trick-you don't really need to saw the lady in half. Take the scene in Spy Kids where the robotic Carmen and Juni run up the wall, do the flip, and land on their feet. How would you film that...
...kiddie James Bond dropped into a surreal Willy Wonka-style world, Spy Kids ostensibly stars Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as a pair of secret agents who decide to retire from the espionage game and settle into a quiet family life, but the real heroes are their plucky tykes, Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara), who are forced to save the day when mom and dad tumble into the clutches of evil. In one respect, Spy Kids shares a clear kinship to Rodriguez's previous films though its breezy, comic-book inventiveness-the playful "kids-save-parents" concept...
...John Woo) and appears that much more clunky as a result. Trying to strike that elusive storytelling pitch that appeals to both children and adults, Rodriguez's writing becomes more nakedly labored and problematic. The story stumbles through the usual childhood cliches (Juni is picked on at school; Carmen has a bedwetting problem) and, in the end, it screams its "family IS important" message just a little too blatantly...