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...often contrasted your more reflective, subversive type of cinema with Hollywood-style "cinema of comfort." Given opera's tragic tradition, does it seem like a medium where you're less expected to comfort audiences...
...film as anything I was going to do - but there was Dead Ringers that I'd been trying to get made. Yet even after I did The Fly, it still was a huge struggle. Then I realized something that I had intuited already, which is: those people in Hollywood are very down to earth, they're very practical. You walk in with The Fly, they can see it. You walk in with two gynecologists who end up dead, they don't want to make that movie, they want you to make The Fly again. They're not stupid...
...last two movies, History of Violence and Eastern Promises, were relatively successful - great critical reviews, did respectable business, were understood by Hollywood - and so my stock in Hollywood right now is pretty good. But then if I make another movie like Dead Ringers or Videodrome or Naked Lunch for the next one, my stock will go down. And I accept that. That's part of the game, I don't have any illusions about...
...could abdicate his authority and allow Dick Cheney and his alarming chief of staff, David Addington, to abandon the Geneva Conventions and engage in the most gruesome forms of torture. You can easily see Charlie Blackwell--whose (inaccurate) notion of the efficacy of torture would have been shaped by Hollywood--passing off the tough and the ugly jobs to his number...
These are precisely the kinds of challenges that gave rise to Stand Up to Cancer, the advocacy group organized by CBS newscaster Katie Couric and eight other women, all of them connected to Hollywood, including Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin, who has breast cancer. Says Couric, who lost her husband and sister to cancer: "It was clear to me and other people that this borders on the ridiculous. You ask yourself: What can be done?" SU2C has a scheduled Sept. 5 launch with an unprecedented three-network simulcast, hosted by Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson. It features a roster...