Word: hollywoodism
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...this dispiriting little film about sexual gymnasts worth all the fuss? In the Philippines, yes. For most Filipinos, it's impossible to have a conversation without quoting a line from a Hollywood hit or a show tune, as if cinema were the grand sum of all the world's philosophy. Movies and politics are also melded together. Even with Estrada gone, movie stars still want to be politicians, and politicians yearn for their close up. The President copied her look and her camera poses from a doll-sized Filipina actress, Nora Aunor, whom she resembles...
...North were alive today, a half-century later, he might well draw inspiration from the labor disputes currently embroiling his beloved union in order to draft a sequel to the film that first garnered him the limelight: “The Day Hollywood Stood Still.” It would be tragedy on a smaller scale, the demise of the silver screen as seen on the silver screen. And unlike the original, this one would be based on actual events...
...past five years, with roles in both Kiss the Girls and Seven. Seven, on the other hand, actually had what it takes to be a gutsy, successful movie; good acting and good direction, not to mention an interesting premise. Although Freeman is undeniably irreproachable as the brooding, shrewd criminologist, Hollywood can do with a little variety. Let us just hope he does not feel the need to reprise any of these I-am-an-intelligent-policeman roles in the near future, especially roles that require him to run around answering cell phones in garbage cans at some hack crook...
...more than a little, um, improvement. If Soneji is living proof that "a mind is a terrible thing," then Potter is living proof that a pretty face with nothing to back it up is a wonderful thing that can get you a starring role across Freeman in a major Hollywood film. Her pert, perpetually undisturbed blondness gets painfully monotonous about three scenes after she first enters...
...NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which most Chinese believe was a deliberate act. There's the pesky U.S. insistence that Taiwan and Tibet aren't quite part of the motherland. Then there are the kids who return from studying in the States and report that the Hollywood version of America is but a dream. The returnees feel slighted because their American counterparts know little about China and, even worse, don't seem to care. "Our love for the U.S. used to be blind," says Liu Yi, 23. "But now we are much more sophisticated...