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...played in Pulp Fiction.) All the dialogue from TV shows and movies, all the commercials and DJ patter, Mackenzie's team made that up too. Nearly four years after it was begun, the film had its premiere at the 1961 Venice Film Festival and was bought by a U.S. distributor, but it was licensed only in a 16mm version to schools and churches. It never received a proper theatrical release till...
...power, expressed dissatisfaction with his work in later years. But the rediscovered material sheds new light on the filmmaker's intentions. The restored version is thought to reveal that most of the movie's perceived shortcomings were caused by the brutal editing Metropolis was subjected to by its American distributor, Paramount, which found it too long and complicated to please a broader audience...
...that - thanks in large part to a superb cast, led by Hoffman's unsparing, sympathetic, towering performance - should delight viewers who both work the movie out and surrender to its spell. (If they ever get to see it, that is. At the moment the film has no U.S. distributor...
...demographics of America have been transformed, so has the business of Chinese-American food today. Top restaurant chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro was actually founded by one Paul Fleming, its name derived from Fleming's initials and an alternative spelling of consultant Phillip Chiang's surname. The largest distributor of soy-sauce packets in the U.S., Kari-Out, is owned by a Jewish family in New York City (and Kari-Out soy sauce contains no soy). In the Los Angeles area, fortune cookies, noodles, sheets of wonton pastry and dumplings are mostly made by Mexican workers...
...remove the word Coca from Coca-Cola and just leave Cola. It's ludicrous.' ARYE BARAK, spokesman for an Israeli movie distributor, on requests by religious authorities that the word sex be removed from ads for the movie Sex and the City, which opens in Israel...