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...Eventually Jackie Chan and Jet Li, after years as stars in the East, made a dent in the U.S. market; and in 2005 the movie Bride and Prejudice, starring Bollywood princess Aishwarya Rai, tried unsuccessfully to anglicize the Indian musical. Yet there's been little foreign exchange between the two national cinemas. So far as I know, Chandni Chowk, which Warner Bros. is giving a fairly wide release in the States this week, represents the first A-budget crossbreeding of Bollywood and Hong Kong...
...only two winning films - WALL-E and The Dark Knight - have made more than a fender-bending dent at the box office. Mind you, several of these pictures are just starting to get a wide domestic release. Rourke's film and both of Winslet's have a shot at moderate financial success, and Slumdog could be that rare film from the indies (or, this time, from India) that crosses over to mainstream-hit status. The film's U.S. distributor, Fox Searchlight, surely hopes that the publicity from the Globes victory will lift Slumdog into the multiplexes with the buoyancy...
Still, this economic downturn has the potential to put a bigger dent in happiness than the past few. Unemployment is expected to rise higher than it did in the recessions earlier in the decade and in the 1990s. And economists and psychologists, not surprisingly, agree that unemployment is a big downer...
...estimated 638 billion tons of carbon locked in the world's forests. If even a fraction of those credits are put on the market, it could let developed countries off the hook when it comes to making the hard changes in industry and energy use needed to really dent carbon emissions...
...Poland were aimed straight at the Kremlin's men's room. Of course, they are not. They are intended as a hedge against an Iranian nuclear threat. And the Russians know that by dint of their range and position, these two handfuls of rockets could not even put a dent in their vast offensive potential...