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...party. For many, this time persists into the college years, sometimes lasting well into “adulthood.” This ad perceptively recognizes, however, that for we Harvard students this Golden Age is and always will be a tantalizing fiction, the teasing stuff of Hollywood movies and Dorm Crew dreams...
Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore went home braless from Hogs ’n’ Heifers, a blue-collar country-western watering hole in the meatpacking district of Manhattan. This is not the bar’s only brush with Hollywood. Cineastes will recognize its beautiful, scantily clad female bartenders who two-step to honky tonk as the inspiration for the movie Coyote Ugly. Over the summer, among Hogs ’n’ Heifers’ standard line-up of sexy bartenders, cheap beer, celebrity bras and customers with mullets was a decidedly unlikely presence: Jordan...
...world-movie terms, Korea is today. Hong Kong is five years ago?July 1, 1997, to be exact. Coincidental with the handover from British to Chinese rule, the territory's thriving film community lost much of its spark. For decades, domestic product out-grossed the big Hollywood offerings, but Hong Kong has become just another struggling local mini-industry. Part of the problem is the brain drain to the U.S. of directors like Woo and top stars Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li. Even the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Australian Emigr? whose bold, painterly eye set the palette...
...Movies from India?whether Satyajit Ray's art classics or Bollywood's dizzy musicals?have often centered on children's quest for self-expression within the family hierarchy. Bollywood Hollywood, an Indian-Canadian musical comedy from controversial director Deepa Mehta?she made this film after her Fire-Earth-Water trilogy was shut down due to protests and threats on her life?is at heart a story about young people making their parents happy while finding some joy on their...
...potential lifeline, but Beijing classifies Hong Kong movies as foreign, so only a handful of films are admitted every year. That leaves the mainland's prodigious taste for Hong Kong stars to be filled by pirated DVDS and VCDS that are cutting into profits regionwide. Andre Morgan, a Hollywood film producer with decades of experience in the Asian market, says Hong Kong also has a language barrier. When studios began making movies in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, Morgan explains, "It was one of the most critical mistakes they ever made. It limited the future." Morgan, who believes Shanghai will usurp...