Word: hollywoodism
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...Strangely, even the Sugihara family is divided on the case. Nobuki Sugihara, the hero's youngest son, has denounced the lawsuit as an exploitation of his elderly and infirm mother. But Yukiko's daughter-in-law Michi Sugihara calls Nobuki's position "foolish." Hollywood may also be entering the fray. Both authors are developing separate Sugihara film projects, though they deny that the lawsuit has anything to do with their cinematic endeavors. For now, it's anyone's guess which version of Sugihara's List will make it to the multiplex near...
...author might be tempted. Although he has plans for another novel next, Rushdie says he's enjoying the rehearsal process so much, he may write an original play sometime in the future. And, if new discussions for a movie of Midnight's Children bear fruit - Rushdie says one Hollywood studio is sending people to see a preview of the play in London and another is reading the script - he might even resurrect his long-dormant acting ambitions: "I shall insist on a role!" In the meantime, he's looking forward to the opening at the Barbican. "I love...
...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...
...easy to picture Paul Wellstone's life as a Hollywood movie: scrappy unknown idealist, married to his high school sweetheart, overcomes solid incumbent to win a seat in the Senate. There he storms, and eventually charms, Washington with his rabble-rousing advocacy for the downtrodden. Before he was killed in a plane crash just days before the November election, the Minnesotan son of Russian-Jewish immigrants was a voice for laborers, the poor and the mentally ill, emphatically embracing the long-out-of-fashion label "liberal." In October, Wellstone was one of 23 Senators to vote against the resolution...
Here's an American success story: an Austrian Jew arrives in the U.S. in 1934 knowing barely a word of English, and within a year he is writing screenplays in Hollywood. No wonder Billy Wilder's scintillatingly cynical heroes figured they could get away with murder, cross-dressing or "the girl"; they were reflections of their brilliantly duplicitous writer-director. And though his voice was caustically distinct, Wilder triumphed in a wide variety of genres. He made the sauciest farce (Some Like It Hot), the darkest film noir (Double Indemnity), the dearest romantic comedy (Sabrina) in Hollywood history--as well...