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...white, old and young. They have gathered to hear the words of Elvis Mitchell, the first African-American film critic for the New York Times. Mitchell, who is widely read and revered for his tough but honest reviews, spoke at Harvard on the state of African Americans in cinema as a part of the Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series...
...release is over, Benigni, his wife and muse Nicoletta Braschi and Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein will enter an editing suite in the U.S. to prepare a dubbed and scrubbed version of the film for the U.S., where it is due to open on Dec. 25 at 2,500 cinemas. The company admits that it is making "nips and tucks" to Pinocchio but denies trying to Americanize the film. Sources say some of the frightening imagery in the movie will be cut because the film is being pitched at American families with small children, complete with McDonald's Happy Meal...
...release is over, Benigni, his wife and muse Nicoletta Braschi and Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein will enter an editing suite in the U.S. to prepare a dubbed and scrubbed version of the film for the U.S., where it is due to open on Dec. 25 at 2,500 cinemas. The company admits that it is making "nips and tucks" to Pinocchio but denies trying to Americanize the film. Sources say some of the frightening imagery in the movie will be cut because the film is being pitched at American families with small children, complete with McDonald's Happy Meal...
...pedigree for the baddest of Bad Boys. His father is Canto-popinjay Patrick Tse-yin, prime dude of '60s cinema, who vaulted from "himbo"?male bimbo?roles in comedies and musicals to the haunted hero of the classic Story of a Discharged Prisoner (remade as A Better Tomorrow , with Chow Yun-fat in the Tse role). Nic's mother is Deborah Li, an actress in '70s soft-core sex films (Hong Kong Emmanuelle). They sent Nic to Canada to learn English when he was seven; he then attended a prep school in Arizona. His parents divorced...
...Gangsters may have been useful in bringing some order to the lawless world of Indian cinema?a huge industry run like a street stall, where no contract is signed and a promise is easily broken. But the bhais don't do favors. They extort money, run their own banks like Shylocks, and demand international distribution rights to potential hit films...