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...world sensation after his wife convinces him to build a sculpture around her aborted fetus. Suddenly he's besieged with commissions - but where to find more dead babies? As slick as it is sick, the movie could be Anwar's calling card for international employment, if only Hollywood moguls wanted something out of their own narrow range. The Forbidden Door is one more NYAFF example of what movies could be but rarely dare...
...flowering of interest, melancholy and remorse is common at the sudden early passing of a superstar - James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana - whose life is marked by achievement and controversy. Jackson's death and commercial resurrection are eerily like those of Elvis Presley, dead at 42. One Hollywood cynic, learning that Presley had just died, commented, "Good career move." Cutting but prophetic: Elvis sold far more records after his death than before. Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, Jackson's wife for 20 months in the mid-'90s, recalled a few days ago on her MySpace page a conversation...
...Bullock faces two big challenges. She's a star actress at a bad time for the breed (a recent Forbes study showed that Hollywood's 10 top-earning actors were all men), and her gifts of subtle endearment just aren't needed in movies that force their stars into Manichaean opposition...
...problems: the rise of younger actresses like Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Katherine Heigl, who have built their own constituencies with hit movies and are now more likely than Bullock to be offered the few good romantic-comedy scripts that get written these days. Being liked is great, but Hollywood loves nothing more than a solid movie that proves a star personality can again be box-office gold...
...Lest you think that there is something very cute and Japanese about the productions, it should be noted that Takarazuka derives most of its inspiration from foreign sources - vaudeville, Radio City Music Hall and Hollywood musicals. In their stylization, codified roles, transvestite stars, rigid themes (which in Takarazuka's case is almost always boy and girl fall in love, conflict ensues and is resolved) and combinations of dance, drama and chorus, there are obvious similarities between Takarazuka and the traditional Japanese performing arts of Kabuki and Noh theater. But these tales of chaste love are told through adaptations of Broadway...