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...daughter; the film highlighted the life of privilege led by the country's ruling elite, even as many Burmese struggle to fill their bellies. The other video was a bootleg of the latest in the Rambo film series, which features the aging hero battling the Burmese junta. Apparently, Hollywood action flicks displease the junta just as much as domestically produced comedy...
...Zohan's premise is so vivid and promising - a legendary Israeli counter terrorist wants to give up violence and find his bliss as a hair stylist - that it entered funny movie legend land months in advance of its release. Ideas like that don't occur every day in Hollywood. Or every year for that matter...
...Duncan says he is not a pot smoker. "I haven't in eight or nine years now," says Duncan, 37. "It wasn't the right thing for me." Which is ironic, since he spends most of his day around plenty of cannabis as part owner of a West Hollywood, Calif. dispensary of medical marijuana, a storefront operation where as many as 100 customers - Duncan is careful to call them patients - line up daily with letters from their doctors to procure products with names like L.A. Confidential and Purple Urkel...
...which is best known for its former dictator's cult of personality so extreme that he renamed the days of the week after the women in his life; and Kyrgystan, which is where, exactly? Kazakhstan, by contrast, has the neighborhood bragging rights attached to being a big name in Hollywood...
...didn’t end up in Pusey. Instead, the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator’s 20-minute video thesis, an original version of the 1990 Sundance Film Festival award-winning “House Party,” launched Hudlin’s successful Hollywood directing career, culminating in his 2005 appointment as president of Black Entertainment Television (BET), a leading black cable network...