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...philosophers and showy new museums are symbols of pride and patriotism. Moreover, France has led the charge for a "cultural exception" that would allow governments to keep out foreign entertainment products while subsidizing their own. French officials, who believe such protectionism is essential for saving cultural diversity from the Hollywood juggernaut, once condemned Steven Spielberg's 1993 Jurassic Park as a "threat to French identity." They succeeded in enshrining the "cultural exception" concept in a 2005 UNESCO agreement, and regularly fight for it in international trade negotiations...
...typical French film of the '80s and '90s had a bunch of people sitting at lunch and disagreeing with each other," quips Marc Levy, one of France's best-selling novelists. (His Et si c'Etait Vrai... , published in English as If Only It Were True, became the 2005 Hollywood film Just Like Heaven starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.) "An hour and a half later, they are sitting at dinner, and some are agreeing while others are disagreeing." France today can make slick, highly commercial movies - Amélie, Brotherhood of the Wolf - but for many foreigners the taint...
...sacred is the American holiday-shopping season that Franklin Roosevelt officially moved Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November (for years like this, with an extra one) to the fourth, to give retailers an edge. They'll need it this time around, as darkened Broadway theaters and striking Hollywood writers dampen the holiday spirit, toys have gotten scary, gas prices trudge ever upward, the dollar slips ever lower, and the credit crisis makes people feel poorer even if they aren't in foreclosure. One marketing firm predicts a "blue Christmas," citing slumping sales of tinsel as a leading indicator...
...Barnett has been working hard on the other two. Knowing what Hollywood did for Toyota's Prius, Shaklee's publicity team has set up tables at the Emmy Awards and plans the same for the Oscars. Barnett has joined the board of the celebrity-heavy Environmental Media Association (EMA), which is a nonprofit Shaklee distributor (every purchase earns the EMA a donation). And those parties Sloan Barnett threw? They were attended by people with last names like Rockefeller, Seinfeld and Trump...
...Before attending an event, be prepared to step into what feels like a Hollywood set. One minute you're in quiet Des Moines or even quieter Rock Rapids. The next minute, and with little effort, you're in a humble cafe, high school gym, community center or convention hall that is part of a major media event - with famous faces popping up in the crowd of ordinary Iowans. And not just famous politicians and television reporters either. Singer Paul Simon has opened for Chris Dodd; John Legend for Obama; and Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne for Edwards...