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Those who fret about overdevelopment in Bali will appreciate Alila Villas Uluwatu, alilahotels.com, on the island's Bukit Peninsula. The resort is the first in Indonesia to win Green Globe certification, denoting compliance with principles endorsed at the 1992 U.N. Rio Earth Summit. Only local materials are used. The planting of indigenous vegetation like sweet lemongrass for landscaping keeps water consumption down, as does the deployment of rain gardens to collect precipitation. Cabanas are made with old telephone poles and railroad ties, while volcanic rocks used in villa construction absorb heat from the sun and keep interiors cool, minimizing...
...among directors of the top 10 grossers. The lessons: prestige directors get to spend more money, and, in dollar terms, their "personal vision" can look astigmatic to the mass audience. (And great to critics, who put the Mann and Jonze films on their 10-best lists, and would rightly fret if big-budget assignments went only to hacks.) Consider, too, that none of the first seven of the top 10 grossers had traditional stars; but the loser list featured the likes of Jim Carrey, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Johnny Depp and Will Ferrell. The lesson, which Hollywood should...
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