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...drawn to these types of films? Niki Caro: I think I’m drawn to them because they’re sort of unusual stories. At the moment, there is still not a lot of illumination of the female experience in cinema, particularly not in Hollywood films. When I read the script, I was shocked at the events and I was also really impressed that a studio had the balls to get it out there. THC: Your film seems outwardly similar to films like “A Civil Action” or “Erin Brockovich...
...still working, compared with just 17% of Frenchmen in the same age group. Many of those who aren't drawing a paycheck remain active as volunteers for charitable causes. "You have to keep taking on challenges," says May Ushiyama, who at 94 still runs the Hollywood Beauty Salon in Tokyo, which she helped start three-quarters of a century ago. "If you lose that, it's the end of you as a human being...
...represent Japan's greatest generation, responsible for lifting the country from the postwar ashes and building the world's second biggest economy?and they're not done yet, as May Ushiyama shows. The bright-eyed, thoroughly perfumed 94-year-old?who spent several years after the war working in Hollywood, and has the black and white photos with Grace Kelly and Debbie Reynolds to prove it?grew her beauty salon from a small family company to an upscale operation that now occupies several floors in Tokyo's tony Roppongi Hills. She has no intention of retiring. "If you live long...
...ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times. Both spawned fanatical cult followings and countless spin-offs. Both, amazingly, were created by the same man, Sherwood Schwartz ... [He] called Gilligan's Island a 'social microcosm' when he pitched the idea for the show. Schwartz still calls...
...been called Hollywood's most under-appreciated actor. Do you feel that...