Word: hollywood
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...make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas - simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument Hollywood has made of movie...
Human-rights campaigners, however, welcome Hollywood's focus on the issue and say it has helped tighten industry oversight even before the film's release. In the run-up to the holiday period--peak season for diamond sales and blockbuster movies--the public spat makes an interesting study of how a big studio movie can threaten a $60 billion-a-year global retail industry, one that has previously thrived on its association with all things Hollywood, and how that business can fight back...
...folks say the decision had nothing to do with Blood Diamond. "The movie had no impact on the deliberations and outcome of the recent Kimberley Process Plenary," says W.D.C. spokesman Carson Glover. "The diamond industry began confronting the problem of conflict diamonds long before Hollywood was aware of it and will be focused on it long after Hollywood loses interest." Activists, though, say the W.D.C. was much more proactive at this Kimberley Process meeting than in the past. "I think that the upcoming film must have had an impact on their moves to support calls to strengthen the Kimberley Process...
...DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career, won acclaim for playing innocents-memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tag line: "All Paris desired her but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, California...
...Glod incident undermines all of that. Cohen and his crew seem to have behaved with all of the arrogant ignorance of the people they are meant to satirize. They arrived with a fully fledged Hollywood entourage, made little effort to explain their terms, took what they wanted, and went on their merry...