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...carried out last year across Malaysia, netting 5 million counterfeit DVDs. Lucky and Flo's effort will likely boost this year's bootleg count. But walking around Kuala Lumpur during the dogs' visit, I saw little evidence that video pirates were running scared. Vendors openly hawked copies of recent Hollywood hits along with popular films from India's film industry, Bollywood. Many of the covers featured misspellings - Judd Apatow's Knicked Up, anyone? - but at $3 each, it's still a buyer's market...
...idea, something that makes me dream and sigh right in the middle of a mouthful of popcorn. Like the women quoted in the article, I have turned to the classics to fulfill my need for good, honest romance, be it far-fetched or not. I do hope that somehow Hollywood will come up with ways to appeal to the masses once again, not just to the guys who need bathroom jokes to think a "chick flick" is worthwhile. Meg Herrick, Muncie...
...stake a claim on the market of Asia's movie viewers, which has become the world's fastest growing. Ten years ago, the North American takings of U.S. film companies outpaced international earnings. "That's now absolutely shifted," says TWC co-president Michael Cole, who will shuttle between Hollywood and the fund office in Hong Kong. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Asia's film industry will increase by 6% annually, reaching $104 billion by 2010. "If you're not really doing movies in Asia or with Asia as a possible location, or using Asia in a storyline in some fashion...
...years and has met with many Burmese activists, phoned U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to press for more action from the international body. "One thing we can do to work toward national reconciliation in Burma is for the Security Council to speak out formally," she told TIME. Hollywood has gotten in on the act, with star Jim Carrey posting a video on YouTube calling for the release from house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won a landslide election in 1990, only to have the junta ignore the polls...
...leave NASA after returning home from the moon? -Gene McHugh, HOLLYWOOD, MDIt would have been pretty hard to top the moon landing. Neil Armstrong elected to stay with NASA in aeronautics, and I, being more of a military person, left to continue my career in the U.S. Air Force. There were a lot of other people who wanted to walk on the moon, and we didn't want to be greedy...