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...itself wasn't news: horror is the most profitable genre around, earning big bucks on a pittance. Each new film can almost be guaranteed a large slice of the teenage-boy market, the last demographic devoted to spending Friday night at the movies. And where there's a market, Hollywood will rush to satisfy and sate...
...trap) from the first one. How many variations on body-piercing and self-puncturing can there be before the audience tires of the repetition, or gets exasperated and shouts, "You've been punk'd"? It also has a much larger cast, all of them seemingly graduates of the Off-Hollywood School of Bad Acting. Only Bell, hoarse and recriminating in fine Old Testament God fashion, can summon the depraved grandeur his character requires...
...vehicular disaster. Maybe a little too much. First there was “Amores Perros,” his 2000 debut—a brilliant, difficult movie about the intersecting lives led by victims of a car crash. “21 Grams,” his ambitious first Hollywood film, came in 2003, overwrought and under-felt. Like “Amores Perros,” it followed several fractured lives thrown together following a deadly hit-and-run auto accident. Now there’s “Babel,” which strays—slightly?...
People are rightfully reluctant to take political cues from the motley group of college dropouts and well-intentioned pseudo-intellectuals that set opinion in Hollywood. Streisand should rest on her laurels as one of the most overrated vocalists of all time and not seek further accolades for political involvement and social awareness...
...halves - spouses, husbands, wives. But because Michael and I couldn?t marry, calling him my ?spouse? was a lie. So I always introduced him as my ?partner? and put my hand around his waist, to show we didn?t just run a pet store or a restaurant or a Hollywood studio together. I also showed pictures of our two beautiful cats (wait a second, do we sound like ?longtime companions...