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...have any regrets about coming to America? Franc Hong, Pittsburgh, Pa. No. I've learned so much from Hollywood. I've made a lot of good friends. Also, it's been great to work with such superstars as John Travolta, Nic Cage and Tom Cruise...
...There haven't been any interesting new Hong Kong movies. What's going on? Kerstin Reiher, Lucerne, Switzerland Hong Kong people aren't excited about Hong Kong films. People think Hollywood movies are the best because they have the highest budgets. But there are some great filmmakers trying their best to make better Hong Kong movies. Just wait...
...pretty good script, but it was hard to get financing, hard to make the studios believe that musicals still work, and hard to get stars, because we wanted a star who could sing, dance and shoot. I'm still working on it. If I can't make it in Hollywood, I will try to make it in China...
...there was Madonna. At least that's how most see the modern history of Kabbalah--the New Agey revival of traditional Jewish mysticism recently linked in the tabloids to a love triangle involving the Material Girl and married New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Yet despite its high-profile Hollywood associations, the Kabbalah tradition--which involves the attempt to more directly understand God through contemplation and arcane textual study--stretches back centuries...
...More important than its homages to Hollywood classics may be WALL-E's status as an example of the kind of films Hollywood rarely makes anymore: well-crafted stories for a mass audience. Filmgoers, it seems, have to choose between smart but dark, strange, independent or quasi-independent films, like last year's Best Picture, No Country for Old Men, or mind-numbing popcorn flicks, like the latest superhero offering from Will Smith, Hancock. WALL-E, however, seems to be stimulating both hearts and minds...