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...film's initial reception among Hollywood executives: Many insiders considered De Palma's Scarface a not-so-subtle critique of a drug-addled entertainment industry. "Steven Bauer repeated to me the famous anecdote about one major director's reaction: 'Marty Scorsese turned to me - he was sitting in front of me at the premiere - and he turned around and said, Steven, this is a magnificent film, but be prepared, because Hollywood is going to hate this film, because it's about them.' [Producer Martin Bregman] concurred about the dim view his colleagues took of the film: 'Scorsese was right. Hollywood...
...Twilight seems sure to mint a new femme franchise. But to become Hollywood's holy grail - a movie that studios consider a "four-quadrant" hit, appealing to young and old, male and female - it will need to reel in some Y chromosomes. Iron Man, for instance, won over mostly male comic-book fans first but rode their approval to an opening-weekend audience that was more evenly split by gender...
...while, the 21st century had debased piracy. The word evoked cheap and illegal Chinese DVDs of Hollywood blockbusters - the real Pirates of the Caribbean having become historical fantasy. Suddenly, however, old-fashioned "Jolly Roger" piracy has hoisted itself as a distinctly modern-day menace, playing out every week off the eastern coast of Africa. At least 88 ships have been attacked in the Gulf of Aden alone this year. The problem would not pose too difficult a problem for the modern military forces of the world to solve - except that there has been no political will thus far to launch...
What's more, who's to say that we, like our grandparents and great-grandparents in the Depression, couldn't use a little glamour amidst the gloom? It's worth remembering that Hollywood's tuxedoed, martini-soaked movies about the carefree rich gave people an escape that helped get them through the 1930s. A-Rod and Klum may not be Astaire and Rogers but Miami Beach wants to help us forget our troubles for an hour...
...Addition. The new SLS Hotel in L.A. features a Jekyll-and-Hyde lobby: Enter on one side for a serene, low-key experience; on the other, you get a hopping, nightclub-like scene (the owner also owns several L.A. clubs). Located between Beverly Hills and Hollywood, the hotel has a pool, tapas bar, pâtisserie and Spanish restaurant, plus furnishings designed by Philippe Starck. According to the hotel's rep, the designer's innovation was to put the bed in the middle of the room, so the "businessman can work while watching his wife sleep." 465 South La Cienega...