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...would be a long battle against inbred, Hollywood-fed macho traditions and the fallout from TMT, Too Much Testosterone. But even a partial victory, even the possibility of imagining that pompous old goat Henry Higgins inverting his sexist question, now that might really turn women on. More than any electrode...
...West, either." In the 2000 U.S. census, nearly 7 million people identified themselves as multiracial, and 15% of births in California are of mixed heritage. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Oscar-winning kung fu flick, was more popular in Middle America than it was in the Middle Kingdom. In Hollywood, where Eurasian actors once were relegated to buck-toothed Oriental roles, the likes of Keanu Reeves, Dean Cain and Phoebe Cates play leading men and women, not just the token Asian. East and West have met, and the simple boxes we use for human compartmentalization are overflowing, mixing, blending...
...course, literary figures are probably a poor basis for comparison. Unfortunately, a glance at pop culture today provided little reassurance. At 21, according to a recent issue of Cosmopolitan, most runway models are “washed out.” Hollywood dictates that 21-year-olds pretending to be four to five years younger than their true age are as “hip” as it gets—think Kate Hudson in “Almost Famous,” or anyone who has ever appeared on Dawson’s Creek. And the musical preferences...
Having proven his considerable prowess helming small, intimate films (Juliet in Love, Bullets Over Summer), director Wilson Yip tackles this grand scale event with mixed results. On one hand, his flair for the visual aesthetic has never been better. Skyline Cruisers easily matches the blockbuster Hollywood action films in scope and grandeur; none of the cost-cutting so common in Hong Kong productions is to be found here. Yip gets the most visually out of every cent in his large budget. The futuristic architecture of Kuala Lumpur is photographed to its best advantage, and it is a rare shot indeed...
Stunning visuals, nifty gadgets, cool-as-ice heroes and villains combine in a movie with tremendous style and zero substance. Skyline Cruisers shows clearly that Hong Kong cinema has what it takes to compete with its big-budget Hollywood brethren...