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...Year rolled in and all the world watched, he fought alone for the life of his ship Flying Enterprise against the fury of January seas in the North Atlantic. For twelve days he fought, but in the end the Flying Enterprise went down. Captain Carlsen rejected the inevitable Hollywood contract and modestly disappeared, and the world was left still searching for a hero...
...Black.White., which ends with the last of six episodes Wednesday night, puts two families, one black and one white, in the same house. Then through the wonders of Hollywood make-up, the black family is made to look white and the white family is made to look black. With much aid from the press, Ice Cube, Black.White.'s producer, and R.J. Cutler, its executive producer and director, have pushed the show as a penetrating look at a race in America...
...That sort of essentialism is in vogue in Hollywood. This year?s winner for Best Picture, Crash, was essentially a cluster of stock characters ambling on screen only to represent their respective ethnicities. The ambling always ended in racial slurs and suspicion. Like Black.White., nearly every action in the movie is explained by race. Carjacking? What else is a young black man to do? Suspicious of your Mexican locksmith? Well, what do you expect of upper-class white women? Racist cop feeling up your wife? That?s what happens when your dad gets screwed by affirmative action...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...
...studies by Points North Group and Horowitz Associates Inc., nearly half (47%) of adults between 18 and 34 said they'd pay to see a show before it runs on traditional broadcast networks. And as long as consumers are willing to part with more money for new viewing opportunities, Hollywood can be counted on to fight over...