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...premise: A brittle and conniving Hollywood agent (Julie White) is trying to land a big movie project for her hot actor client, while keeping under wraps the fact that he "has a slight recurring case of homosexuality." Thus the groundwork is laid for a "trenchant satire about truth and illusion Hollywood-style" (in the words of the New York Times). But almost nothing in this play is smart enough for satire, or even makes much sense. The project the agent is seeking for the client she doesn't want outed is... a play about two gay lovers. (There's some...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...
...profile experiments, before long prominent studios got in on the action. Trent Reznor, mastermind of industrial group Nine Inch Nails, composed the entire soundtrack for id Software’s legendary 1996 shoot-em-up “Quake,” for instance.More recently, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hollywood music composer, scored the 2001 game “Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty,” in the same year that he scored such big-budget films as “Shrek” and “Spy Kids.”Given connections like this...
...hypocritical. He has harsh words for comedians who court an audience on both sides of a debate by saying, as he puts it, “we just offend everybody, we’re equal opportunity offenders.”South Park, a show that frequently skewers anti-war Hollywood activists along with neo-conservative policy, is one such example, he says.According to Rees, the creators of South Park act “as if there’s any equivalent between this massive international intervention in the Middle East that’s killed tens of thousands of people...
...film after film.In a New York Times piece on the movie, critic Manohla Dargis quoted Serbian director Dusan Makavejev: “[Yugoslavian filmmakers] had to use artistic means to work around the government so we could tell a story,” he said. “In Hollywood you have to deal with a mass-market society where everything is judged against the best seller and the tastes of the majority are the tyranny.”This ethos seems to explain the contemporary move away from longer shots, smaller casts, and more thoughtful cinematic construction. So much...