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...made smaller-scale dramas for Latin American countries like Argentina and Brazil. But this is its first venture into Mexico, the undisputed leader in Latin American film and TV production. While Mexico's steamy telenovelas are cheap to make, they are wildly popular across the globe, being translated into over 50 languages from Russian to Indonesian. Teaming up with Mexican production company Argos, HBO brought in top cinema talent such as Carlos Carrera, director of the controversial hit film The Crime of Father Amaro, about a priest's affair with a teenage girl. It also persuaded Mexican authorities...
...helps drive innovation towards pollution control and efficiency, funded in part by the value of the emissions trading market. (Companies that spent to lower their emissions beneath the cap could recoup that investment by selling their excess emissions credits.) Just as importantly, it did so on the cheap, at a cost considerably beneath early estimates...
...There is no better symbol to represent these hopes and illusions than the tire swing. The romance of the tire swing implies lusting after a place where we can indulge in replaying our childlike urges. Motorless, silent, and cheap, it is the embodiment of the make-do, enterprising, and venturesome childhoods which we might possibly have lived ourselves but more likely read about secondhand...
...cash, if nothing else. Eleven episodes were originally ordered; seven were produced; only three ever saw the light of day, and Fox has no plans to air the rest. With established talent both in front of and behind the show, those episodes can’t have come cheap. Yet Fox was content to air the show only on Friday nights (its support: reruns of the execrable “’Til Death”), then stomp it out as soon as it got poor ratings. Last I tuned in, no one watches network television on Friday nights...
...made in THUD, whose small size creates an intimate environment. Bray likes the lively, carefree atmosphere of THUD concerts, which she sees as entertaining and affordable shows. For Bray, the most important thing about THUD is summed up in one word: fun. “It’s cheap, it’s short, but it’s fun,” she says. “It’s not serious at all.” – Melanie E. Long