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Crime films abound in Hollywood because they offer rich natural resources in both characters and plots. Writer/director Guy Ritchie seemed to understand exactly how to mine those resources when he created the cult-classics “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch.” After a disastrous straying from the crime genre with his 2002 remake of “Swept Away”—starring his wife, Madonna—Ritchie returns to his roots with “Revolver.” Unfortunately, it seems you can?...
...music, however, means cramming every conceivable genre into a single song. “Welcome to the East” features hints of samba, reggae, and classical guitar, and even has a cameo from the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan, who plays violin. “Hollywood meets Bollywood (Immigration)” also introduces Spanish vocals to a dancehall beat. Which is not to say these ethnic mishmashes aren’t sometimes great fun—they’re just all over the place. The 13-minute “Touch Your Button Carnival...
Wilson's private life is serene. He has retired to Lufkin, Texas, and has been married for nine years to Barbara Alberstadt, a stunning former ballerina he first met at a party in Washington in 1980, during his racy tabloid years. She accompanied Wilson to Hollywood and Morocco while he served as kibitzer, gadfly and ad hoc consultant on Charlie Wilson's War. "We lived through mud slides, rain and windstorms," he says. "Barbara even got to ride a camel. I've done that a lot before," he adds dryly. In the 1980s he rode up and down the Khyber...
...course, this isn’t the first time the Catholic League has waged holy war against godless Hollywood. The group lambasted films like “The Dreamers” and “Brokeback Mountain” for glorifying sin on the silver screen, but this latest attack is more painfully pointless, and represents just how out of touch the League is with reality...
...told TIME he expected the evaluation would "try to capitalize on the discrepancy between true amnesia and what a layperson would think it is." He says that while it is "perfectly possible" Darwin could not remember spending time with his wife since 2002, "it would be a really weird Hollywood movie where he's amnesic, she's claiming his insurance, and he's not aware...