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...Line in 1967 with a plan to distribute art films. But over the ensuing 40 years, the studio has amassed a library of commercial hits including the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Rush Hour, Wedding Crashers and the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy to emerge as Hollywood's leading mini-major studio. (New Line is owned by Time Warner, which is also the parent of Time Magazine and Time.com). In that time, Shaye directed just one film, Book of Love, a bawdy 1990 coming-of-age romantic comedy. "I'm still proud of it, even though...
...Would you call this movie an allegory? Allegory sounds too much like message film. To paraphrase [Hollywood legend] Samuel Goldwyn: "If you want to send a message, use Western Union." It's a fantasy. But I've included some ideas that are worth considering. The whole thesis about losing behavioral traits if we don't use them is something that has only come up in the last three or four years, because of the ubiquitous blackberries, cell phones, iPods, gameboys and the Internet. We're using them to chat with people we've never met who don't even...
...them? It was difficult. The casting director saw thousands of children from all over the country and Canada. There's a lot of dialogue and it required some acting chops on their part because these kids had to carry the film. But we didn't want any of those Hollywood brats that you've seen in a whole lot of stuff. They pulled these performances out of their very being. The script was written by a 60-year-old guy and how's he going to know how kids talk really? I asked them what they would say [in certain...
...that college administrators fulfill their “reasonable role” by setting up technological barriers on networks and alerting its students of impending lawsuits. The pressure on universities has spread to the federal government as well. Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-Calif), whose district includes much of Hollywood and America’s entertainment industry, more recently began a hearing on digital piracy in the world of higher education. Berman inveighed against universities, suggesting they “have turned a blind eye to piracy.” Whether or not the objects of his scorn are actively...
Second, it is a way for the rich to export the real costs and sacrifices of pollution control to the poorer segments of humanity in the Third World. (Apparently, Hollywood's plan is to make up for that by adopting every last one of their children.) For example, GreenSeat, a Dutch carbon-trading outfit, buys offsets from a foundation that plants trees in Uganda's Mount Elgon National Park to soak up the carbon emissions of its rich Western patrons. Small problem: expanding the park encroaches on land traditionally used by local farmers. As a result, reports the New York...