Word: hollywoodism
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...Bear in mind, the games industry is now a couple of billion dollars bigger than the movie industry in terms of overall sales. Yet there's no geographical equivalent of Hollywood where legendary game designers gravitate. There's a bunch of them in Tokyo, a bunch in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, a bunch in Paris, a bunch in London...
...Hollywood is the upside-down town--brazen when it should be cautious, craven when it could be smart. Studio bosses blithely green-light teen comedies gross enough to bring a blush to the ghost of Lenny Bruce, yet they shudder at mounting a musical. Apparently that's the last dirty word you can't say in Hollywood...
...Tsui hasn't slowed up. Just the first two minutes of his new Time and Tide--the first Hong Kong film he has directed in five years--are breathlessly virtuosic, using slo-mo and rapid cuts and neck-swiveling pans to impart enough visual information for half a dozen Hollywood features...
After an abortive mid-'90s stint in Hollywood helming two Jean-Claude Van Damme actioners, Tsui returned home for a rest and a good think. "I had been working nonstop for too long," he says. "You have to get away and get a fresh perspective." Now he's back, frenetic as ever. He has done a remake of Zu with a hot young cast (including Crouching Tiger star Zhang Ziyi). He also produced Hong Kong's big Easter hit, the live-action-plus-animation Master...
...loutish father. You see the pattern in Ronald Reagan's parents back in Illinois, and, God knows, you see it in John Kennedy's - Mother Rose off to mass every morning (if not off to Paris to buy clothes), and Papa Joe off to Gloria Swanson's bed in Hollywood. Bill Clinton's mother Virginia Kelley, though no saint in any sense that would impress Rome, had a saint's devotion to her boy, while his father died in an accident before Bill was born and his stepfather enacted the part of the muzzy, drunken male...