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...those teeming Asian cinemas generated robust entertainment of pinwheeling action and violence (Hong Kong) and unabashed sentiment and music (Bollywood). Different in temperament, but alike in their vigor and brio, they were both exotic and oddly familiar to their American admirers. We realized that the radiant assurance of old-Hollywood movies hadn't died, it had just been reincarnated abroad...
...action scenes and light on the big dance numbers. The movie does include other conventions of the genre, such as the need of a young man to both rebel against his father figure and please him, and the melodramatic abasing of the protagonist; but these are familiar from Hollywood films, so they won't strike the uneducated viewer as unduly weird, just a little hackneyed. Indeed, that's the impression I got from the movie: different faces, same clichés. And (another facet of Bollywood films), longer: 2 hours and 36 minutes. In current American movies, that running time...
What do all Hollywood studio execs wish they had right now? A hot dog. The three puppy movies released in the past three months--lapdog empowerment tale Beverly Hills Chihuahua, ruff-road-trip comedy Bolt and man-meets-retriever weepie Marley & Me--have all taken in more kibble than any other dog movie in four years. On Jan. 16, the canine canon expands again with Hotel for Dogs, in which two kids find a way to house, feed and, crucially, toilet train more than a dozen strays. Plus, the kids are orphans. If by the end of the film...
...cultural divide, and before it, Stuff Happens, about the run-up to the Iraq war in the White House. In 2007, Hare directed Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway in a well-received adaptation of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. And his screenplays are like catnip to the Hollywood A-list: the one he wrote for The Hours, starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, earned him a 2002 Oscar nomination...
...made from spring buds grown in China's Fujian mountains, to the robust, olive tones of the Satemwa Estate black tea ($15 for 50 g), cultivated on the slopes of Malawi's Mount Thyolo. Although Lovell's leaves can be found in the mugs of Hollywood royalty (Anjelica Huston's a fan), they have also captivated regular tea lovers. "I got the builders who worked on my flat addicted to jasmine and white silver tip," she laughs. "And I've even persuaded London taxi drivers to take tea instead of money...