Word: hollywoodism
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...thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar activists spread the word and enlist recruits through the websites and e-mail lists launched during the anti-globalization movement of the late '90s. "The dialogue is happening at a much faster pace than in the past," she says. "There's so much happening...
...they have confused the world's best golfer with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead of helping black folks by, say, routing the Ku Klux Klan...
...Nicole Kidman by some of her male colleagues. She resents the name. "It just shows immaturity and disregard for women on the part of our politicians," she says. "I'd rather be likened to Margaret Thatcher or Indira Gandhi." Still, she's been more than happy to invoke other Hollywood icons in the past. During the anti-Milosevic riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood. As a member of the Civic Alliance, one of the smallest parties within Serbia...
...fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just too far away from us," says Zhang's 25-year-old assistant, speaking of her boss's early work. "They have nothing to do with our lives." Of course they do, and far more than the Hollywood confections that are the biggest box-office hits in China. But Chinese audience members (like those in most of the world) come to the theater to be transported elsewhere, and Zhang's movies have long insisted on rubbing their noses in their native soil...
Rich Halvorson is pretty liberal—for a guy from Idaho. The intensely conservative Christian philosopher is also an actor with plans to take a shot at Hollywood stardom post-graduation, a Sigma Chi, an aspiring male model and a man known to occasionally drink coffee with random homeless strangers at ABP. But his favorite talking point is religion...