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...Oscar for Refusal to Kiss Up goes to ANNIE PROULX, 70, on whose 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain was based. After Brokeback lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Proulx wrote a vituperative column in the Guardian, attacking the winning film (which she refers to as Trash), Hollywood types ("somewhat dim"), the awards event ("reminiscent of a small-town talent show" with "an atmosphere of insufferable self-importance") and even innocent bystanders Three 6 Mafia ("an atrocious act"), who won the Oscar for Best Song. She also lays into the Academy ("conservative heffalumps"). Yep, she used the H word. This...
...each contest is rather narrow-minded. I find it only fitting that some of the prominent U.S. competitors underperformed. I would have preferred a little less cheering for your home team. Riku Reimaa Espoo, Finland Cinematic Mirror I have to disagree with your critic's assessment of the movie Crash - that "people either like the movie or loathe it" because "it is too wide-ranging to really draw you into the lives it recounts" [Feb. 27]. People loathe it because they are forced to recognize their own flaws in the ugly and in some cases unforgivable failures of the movie...
Look out this Monday or Tuesday for the release of Cinematic 4, featuring five articles on David Lynch (cover shot captured from Blue Velvet!) and reviews of Motorball, Crash, etc. All 56 pages of the proof are in, despite early rumors that the magazine was dead in the water?...
...worth remembering how Japan got to where it is now. The crushing collapse of the country's financial markets at the beginning of the 1990s exposed Japan to an economic debacle equivalent in scale to the one that laid waste the U.S. after the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the Great Depression. Scores of Japan's banks and insurance companies imploded, unemployment and bankruptcies soared, real estate values melted, and the credit system turned to mush...
...First to arrive on the scene were the value players, who saw in the crash the opportunity to find treasure. And diamonds there were aplenty; after all, Japan has a massive and highly sophisticated economy. Some of the early successes in recovery, such as Nissan, and Shinsei Bank, created from the shell of the bankrupt Long-Term Credit Bank, served to create an inkling of confidence. Companies began to clean house. Entire sectors of the economy were reorganized. Twenty steel businesses became four; nearly two dozen banks became three. Then China's explosive growth and a rebound...