Word: clan
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...very 21st century ethnic melting pot-though that doesn't stop a tourist character in a new movie that's set there from asking, "Where is Mount Doom?" Rather than ring-seeking hobgoblins and hobbits, No. 2-about an ageing Fijian matriarch's gathering of the clan to name her successor-is filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night and a day. It's all part of the shifting nature of New Zealand film. As Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) says of the Fijian feast taking shape outside...
...Whether any modern children would be tempted to believe the parables served up on FKB is debatable in an age when kids are bred on cynicism. But back then, to me, growing up in a nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American...
...FILMMAKERS Leigh Whannell and James Wan Rob Zombie Eli Roth Alexandre Aja Neil Marshall Darren Lynn Bousman THE GORY DETAILS An ill villain pushes victims to value their lives by forcing them into grisly traps in the 2004 hit Cost: $1.2 million Box office: $103 million A clan of serial-killer hillbillies take off on a gory road trip as they run from police Cost: $7 million Box office: $20 million Young backpackers unwittingly stumble onto a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia Cost: $4.8 million Box office: $80 million Cannibals torment a family in a desert town once used...
...Harvard was closer to what they thought readers wanted it to be than what they had experienced. In the end, I didn’t take it. I’m glad I trusted my gut. 02138 is a desperate magazine. It strains to paint Harvard as a clan of glam. The magazine’s cover features the gorgeous Rashida Jones ’97, the daughter of famous music producer Quincy Jones and “Mod Squad” actress Peggy Lipton. Jones is an actress-modelloungewear designer. “She’s Harvard...
...struggling to find the vocabulary to describe their own landscape of urban violence; in the introduction to “Welcome to the Terrordome,” Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav actually recites several lines from “Scarface” verbatim. The Wu-Tang Clan, while arguably the most cinematic rap crew ever to rock a mic, drew most of their influence not from Hollywood, but from Hong Kong. The group grew up on cheap kung-fu double features, bringing a martial lyrical ethic (and a bevy of dialogue samples) back to their headquarters...