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...another, it may take five or ten years, but down the road it?s going to be a movie. And it?s a wonderful feeling because you know what you?re writing is not going to be in vain. It?s not going to go through that Hollywood process of being looked at by a committee. It?s just between...
...this 1958 TV series, and at times he must have thought Lee Strasberg would disown him. McQueen's method here was a weathered glint and a sawed-off Winchester rifle in his holster. As a bounty hunter with a stern personal code of ethics, McQueen did have something Hollywood could appreciate: star quality. The fun in this first-season DVD is watching him mix it up with other tyros--James Coburn, Warren Oates, Michael Landon--who would also soon learn how to commandeer the screen...
...Hollywood and Silicon Valley have never mixed well. You've got cinéastes vs. nerds, celluloid vs. digital, silicone vs. silicon. Then there is Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
...decades, Bob Hope was the face of Oscar night. He set the brash style, tweaking Hollywood's outsize egos, including his own. Hope was host or co-host of the event a record 17 times. (Crystal is second, with eight...
...exclusive, behind-the-scenes report on the making of Memoirs of a Geisha, the first big-budget Hollywood movie with an all-Asian cast of superstars, prompted readers to share their observations on the repression of women and the relative merits of Chinese and Japanese actors Richard Corliss's article on the filming of Memoirs of a Geisha was very well written [Jan. 9]. Although this depiction of the geisha tradition of Japan will surely become a worldwide hit, the fact that the "main geishas are played by Chinese women speaking English, which they were taught to intone...