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...they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic books and cheap kung-fu movies. Any static visual display of artifacts and commentary will be hard-pressed to uncover the symbolic web of even one Wu-Tang album, let alone the genre as a whole. While it may display some truly fly chains, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop?...
...profits may come from online video ads, which Web tracker eMarketer projects will soar to $640 million by 2007, nearly tripling last year's take. America Online this month launches In2TV, an ad-supported lineup of six streaming-video channels featuring 300 episodes of such vintage series as Kung Fu, Growing Pains and Falcon Crest. "It's not material everyone wants to own," says AOL vice president Erik Flannigan in a bit of an understatement. "But certainly shows like Wonder Woman can be entertaining from the kitsch factor alone." AOL executive vice president Kevin Conroy says...
...ideas about power and liberation with futuristic blowuppy thrills. "I've made a lot of stupid action films," says Joel Silver, a producer on V. "But when we made the Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that." In the mid-1990s, back before Keanu knew kung fu, the Wachowskis wrote a screenplay of V for Vendetta. When Matrix mania finally subsided in 2003, they had the time to get the movie made. Just as important, they'd earned Warner Bros. $600 million in the U.S. at the box office, and that kind of money buys you the kind...
...culture at its worst. “I don’t think that being amused at your amusement strikes me as profoundly clever,” he says. “At least, it’s not as clever as actually en-joying something like kung-fu movies.”Menand agrees that this wouldn’t be the right way to go about academic work, but he says that he doesn’t see any evidence of it in his classes. “I had one [teaching fellow] give a lecture in class...
...Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. A survey taken last January of seven major Chinese cities found that among those 14 to 20, the average age of first sexual experience was 17.4, while those 31 to 40 had lost their virginity much later, at 24.1 years old. Says Fu Zhen, 28, a teacher in Shanghai: "My parents' only entertainment came from revolutionary movies, so they were very conservative about sex. My generation, we see everything from everywhere, and we are hungry for new experiences." As if to underline the point, Fu has adopted the nickname Carrie?as in Bradshaw...