Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cree village on the Canadian island of Fort George never had many full- time residents: most of the 1,000 inhabitants were subsistence hunters and trappers who would spend months in the bush. But today the place is a virtual ghost town. Following the construction of huge hydroelectric dams upstream, almost all the villagers were relocated because of fears that torrents of water would erode their island, which lies at a vulnerable spot where the La Grande River meets James Bay in Quebec province...
...while, the organs of the "respectable press" held out and refused to print ghost-written work. But the cause was probably lost when the New York Times Magazine published a ghost-written piece by Jimmy Carter. A few months ago, Time ran a ghostwritten cover story with George Bush's byline--and even had the gall to run a full page photo that purported to show the President "putting the finishing touches" on the piece at his Oval Office desk...
...jarring change in the buzz words of a town devoted to the glorification of the earthly body and the display of riches. Producers are suddenly locked in meetings pondering the intangibles: death, resurrection, salvation, reincarnation, atonement, even saintly behavior. Spellbound by the blockbuster success of last summer's Ghost, a sweet, metaphysical love story that reaped $218 million in the U.S. and $500 million globally, these obsessed producers have loaded the pipeline full of movies about robust spirits. No fewer than a dozen afterlife films will be released this year, ranging from the silly (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey...
...Death is hot," agrees Bruce Joel Rubin, writer of Ghost. A former hippie who studied Buddhism in India, Rubin admits the seminal idea for the movie came from Hamlet's vapory father. "The film's message is: Life turns on a dime, so tell people you love them," says Rubin. Director Blake Edwards, whose current film, Switch, tells the story of a male chauvinist pig who dies and returns to earth as a woman, believes spirit-filled movies are popular because "the kids are searching for something. Filmmakers are merely attempting to tap it." Producer Robert Lawrence recently paid...
...industry think most of these pictures simply pay homage to the almighty buck, not Almighty God. In the recessionary '90s, when studio chieftains are ostensibly tightening their belts, these films are relatively cheap to produce. Moreover, the town's eye is fixed on the lucrative Asian market, which devours ghost stories with fervor. "The Japanese love ghosts and robots. Certain cultures believe in the afterlife more than we do," explains Fred Olen Ray, president of American Independent Productions, which made Spirits, a low-budget picture, starring Erik Estrada, that will be released this summer...