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...past months, a wave of films set in Japan or with a Japanese theme have flooded theaters, from the anime-influenced Kill Bill and Matrix series to stranger-in-a-strange-island tales Lost in Translation and The Last Samurai. Hollywood has revealed a keen interest in the Asian nation, and in huge numbers, Americans have reciprocated the fascination...
...best schools and distinguished himself in the field of psychology during his time at Harvard. He has a loving wife and five successful children. Then of course, there’s that small matter of his two best-selling and critically acclaimed novels, and his achievements as a veteran Hollywood screenwriter—with screen credits including Alex & Emma, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Don Juan DeMarco, which he also directed. His new movie, The Notebook, opens in theatres everywhere on June...
...grew up in a cop family and was always around cops and heard cop stories. Hanging around them I found that these were people who really loved their jobs. I could have probably found a job in Hollywood or teaching or something which would be close to writing but not quite. I thought it might be better to get a job which had nothing to do with writing so I would be free to write what I wanted...
Then there's Bollywood--Hollywood in Bombay and, by extension, all the country's dozen separate film industries--producing the Indian musicals that nearly everyone in America has heard of and practically no one in America has seen. Bollywood films provide the primary entertainment for half the globe; the top films earn millions more in U.S. theaters catering to Desi audiences. But Bollywood has not dented the mass, or even the class, movie public. The Oscar-nominated Lagaan took in 10 times as much in the Desi houses as it did when Sony Pictures Classics gave it a general release...
...films having more trouble finding an audience than the music and books? America's current cultural insularity aside, the musicals are a hard sell. At three hours-plus, with family-loyalty plots out of the hoariest Hollywood weepies, and all that singing, a Bollywood epic is too old-fashioned for the art-house crowd and too sedate, too girlie, for young males...