Word: hollywood
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...This is not exactly new news. Which makes you wonder why they decided to do the film in the first place. But Hollywood has never been an entirely rational place, and Lucky You is not in any sense a great movie, a masterpiece that future generations will want to rediscover. But it is a solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie - and how many of those have lately been made in America? So don't worry if you're shut out of Spider-Man. There is an alternative - and one that will afford you the kind of agreeable pleasure...
...often complained on this site about how Hollywood movies ignore women, or turn them into figures of fem-machismo. Now I see that, in the burliest genres, men's roles are being feminized. Peter Parker may be affianced to M.J., but their love seems pretty shallow and perfunctory. His most intense relationship is with Harry, his friend and surrogate brother - someone to try to talk sense to, to banter and battle with, to caress lovingly when he's hurt...
Trying to rehabilitate the public image of skinheads is no easy task. Judging by Hollywood's take on the genre - see 1998's American History X or Russell Crowe in 1992's Romper Stomper - skinheads are popularly portrayed as neo-Nazi racists with a penchant for violent thuggery. Not so, contends Shane Meadows, the young British director whose new film, provocatively entitled This is England, is raising eyebrows in its exposé of this most controversial of subcultures...
With his silver hair, urbane style and tendency to quote the classics, Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for four decades, was an erudite icon. A tenacious athlete--he got his Taekwondo black belt at 78--Valenti was well suited to his role as Hollywood lobbyist-ambassador. One of Lyndon Johnson's closest aides, he was in the motorcade in which John F. Kennedy was killed and attended Johnson's sober swearing-in on Air Force One. As head of the MPAA from 1966 to 2004, he championed open markets for movies, fought digital piracy...
...thrill because I was in a professional show with Tony [Award] winners, but I was standing on stage in my underwear with ten other fairies singing fairy songs,” recalls Hoagland. After college, Hoagland plans to move to Hollywood and try his luck on the silver screen. “I am excited to move to L.A. to begin my career,” he says. “But I am also nervous about my potential to get discouraged. It will take time to build a career. Acting is not like becoming a doctor, which always includes...