Word: hollywood
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There's a new auteur theory making the rounds in Hollywood. This one sees directors as having the best shot at ending the 38-day long writers' strike that has paralyzed the entertainment industry, interrupting production on TV shows like 24 and Grey's Anatomy and movies like Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons and the Johnny Depp drama Shantaram...
...jobs of tens of thousands of entertainment-industry workers, including many of our own members, and more lose their jobs every day the strike continues. With so much at stake and no end to the standoff in sight, we can no longer abdicate our responsibility to our own members." Hollywood unions have a history of piggybacking on each other's contracts. If the directors and the AMPTP are able to agree on a new media compensation formula, the WGA leadership would have a hard time convincing its members to continue the strike for the sake of the other issues...
...snooty triple interview, Hollywood's current intellectual superstars generously heap their unique, self-promoting wisdom on us. Never had I seen a more self-absorbed, pretentious and detached-from-reality list of irrelevant observations and pseudointellectual blather. To top it, the interview spanned two pages and included its own laugh track ("Others laugh" ... "More laughing" ... "Everyone laughs"). Miklos Magyar, CRYSTAL LAKE...
...perform the necessary research. “I think film has a much broader social impact in much subtler ways than might seem apparent,” he said. With a screenplay co-written with a friend from NYU all ready to go, Morgan hopes to head to Hollywood after graduation and bring his passion for film to fruition. One of his friends from the Advocate, Marta M. Figlerowicz ’09, can attest to his breadth of knowledge: “He has an astonishingly wide range of interests. You can strike up a conversation with him about...
...people won't watch shows paying tribute to movies they haven't seen. In the old Golden Age days, most contenders for the top Oscars were popular movies that had a little art. Now they're art films that have a little, very little, popularity. The serious movies Hollywood gives awards to in January and February are precisely the kind it avoids making for most of the year. The Oscars are largely an affirmative action program, where the industry scratches its niche. The show is a conscience soother, but not a crowd pleaser...