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...image of private investigators in Hollywood has segued over the years from Philip Marlowe to Charlie's Angels. Real-life gumshoe ANTHONY PELLICANO, however, is a throwback to the noir era; he has handled cases for Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone and Farrah Fawcett, below, and once described his job as making people "remember why they're afraid of the dark...
...brother from hell? No, can't be--since he doesn't exist. See him rather as a projection of everything the tormented Charlie would like to be: a Hollywood smoothie, entirely uncursed by doubt, depression or dismay at the ratchety workings of the world. And see Adaptation as, at its best, a schizoid, almost bipolar comedy in which a basically glum guy struggles to assert his withered gleeful side...
...dire need of psychological help. Moviegoers agreed that this story of the journey of mobster Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) towards mental stability, aided by his reluctant psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal), was an innovative comedic undertaking which put its then-unknown production companies on the map of Hollywood fame...
This year’s festival was a particularly momentous event. While speaking in Beijing last spring at an American Studies workshop on “The Hollywood Dream Factory and American Realities,” Weaver paid a visit to the BFA to discuss the possibility of collaborating on The ChinaFilm Project. This discussion resulted in the arrival of a BFA delegation at Harvard two weeks ago to participate in a forum and associated workshops at the Harvard Film Archive on Nov. 22. Such workshops included Chinese cinema scholars from Harvard, as well as from Yale, Brown, Tufts, Northeastern...
...future. He warns of the subordination of the creative to the commercial, a phenomenon which is reciprocally evident in China itself, where theaters play only major action films and American blockbusters. One wonders if American audiences will take to the budding Chinese independents, or whether the industry will become Hollywood-ized by the importunate mainstream demands of its consumers...