Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hollywood figures it, the upside is worth the gamble. Toronto, unlike Cannes or Venice, is really a people's festival; the movie equivalent of those Wal-Mart warriors pay real money to see these pictures. They may boo films but more often cheer them on, stoking a producer's dreams of big revenues and little statuettes. The studios count on Toronto audiences (and the thousand or so critics who come from the lower 48) to ignite the word-of-mouth that can keep a movie hot through February. Heat shouldn't be a problem at TIFF this year. The temperature...
...stake a claim on the market of Asia's movie viewers, which has become the world's fastest growing. Ten years ago, the North American takings of U.S. film companies outpaced international earnings. "That's now absolutely shifted," says TWC co-president Michael Cole, who will shuttle between Hollywood and the fund office in Hong Kong. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that Asia's film industry will increase by 6% annually, reaching $104 billion by 2010. "If you're not really doing movies in Asia or with Asia as a possible location, or using Asia in a storyline in some fashion...
...years and has met with many Burmese activists, phoned U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to press for more action from the international body. "One thing we can do to work toward national reconciliation in Burma is for the Security Council to speak out formally," she told TIME. Hollywood has gotten in on the act, with star Jim Carrey posting a video on YouTube calling for the release from house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won a landslide election in 1990, only to have the junta ignore the polls...
...leave NASA after returning home from the moon? -Gene McHugh, HOLLYWOOD, MDIt would have been pretty hard to top the moon landing. Neil Armstrong elected to stay with NASA in aeronautics, and I, being more of a military person, left to continue my career in the U.S. Air Force. There were a lot of other people who wanted to walk on the moon, and we didn't want to be greedy...
...schooling and I think we have to stimulate the political people to appreciate science. That can help make it filter down to parents and school systems and perhaps make this universal throughout the country. It is very crucial. In society there is a fascination with sports, music and Hollywood heroes, but not educated heroes. We need to change that somehow...