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...just a blockbuster; it's king of the world. Since premiering on Dec. 18, it has proceeded to shatter most existing box-office records at home and abroad. It has been No. 1 every week, swatting away ambitious newcomers like so many mosquitoes. And like the best ambassador for Hollywood, it has earned most of its revenue - nearly 70% - in foreign markets. (See the top 10 movies...
...wouldn't connect so broadly and deeply with audiences if the central relationship of Jake (Sam Worthington), the crippled Marine, and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), daughter of the Na'vi tribal chief, weren't plausible and inviting. Like Titanic, this is a love story enveloped by catastrophe. That's why Hollywood's anxiety about the movie's supposedly limited appeal to both sexes was needless. Indeed, Avatar's closest kin among current hits may be The Blind Side, the female-skewing sports film. Both tell stories of strong women who find rootless young men and give them a purpose around which...
...Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Hollywood-based political auteur released his latest creation: a three-minute YouTube spot attacking Republican Senate candidate Thomas Campbell on behalf of his rival, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO now running in the GOP Senate primary. The ad was so weird - employing montages of pigs and sheep, a robotic wolfman dressed in wool, graphic illustration evoking Monty Python - that it spread online like swine flu on a pig farm...
...puede!” poster in hand, Derrick N. Ashong ’97-’98 appeared every bit the enthusiastic but uninformed young Obama supporter to a man wielding a video camera outside of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate in Hollywood, Calif...
Dennis Hopper is not world famous because of his stability and family values. He made Easy Rider; it would be a letdown if he were Mr. Domesticated. But even by Hollywood standards, the unraveling of his fifth marriage is a barn burner. The actor, 73, filed for divorce from the former Victoria Duffy, 42, his wife of 13 years, in December in the midst of his life-or-death battle against metastasized cancer. She countersued in January. Among the milder of her claims was that he was not in his right mind...