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...their recent trip to Malaysia, Lucky and Flo did what many visitors to Malaysia do. The Southeast Asian nation is one of the global centers for pirated DVDs, and tourists often load up on illegal copies of Hollywood blockbusters that are available for a tenth of what they cost in the West. Lucky and Flo, too, nosed their way to back-street shops that hawk bootleg films. But unlike the average Western tourist, this American duo was there to bust, not buy. The pair of black Labradors, who arrived in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur in March...
...tale of how the Sunni tribes rejected the forced marriages, beheadings, smoking bans and strict fundamentalism imposed by the terrorists seems ready-made for Hollywood-and it will be front and center as Bush, Petraeus and Crocker try to sell more war to Congress and the public over the next few weeks. But it is not the only story in Iraq, perhaps not even the most important story. It is more about Iraq's recent past than about its future. It is almost irrelevant to the continuing political meltdown in Baghdad, the utter inability of Iraqis to figure...
...idea, something that makes me dream and sigh right in the middle of a mouthful of popcorn. Like the women quoted in the article, I have turned to the classics to fulfill my need for good, honest romance, be it far-fetched or not. I do hope that somehow Hollywood will come up with ways to appeal to the masses once again, not just to the guys who need bathroom jokes to think a "chick flick" is worthwhile...
...Since Hollywood discovered its Oscar-minting potential in the 1990s, Toronto has grown in stature and glitz, but it hasn't forgotten where it comes from. This year, along with Reese Witherspoon's Rendition and Sean Penn's Into the Wild, the festival will also highlight hundreds of Canadian films and international offerings that will probably never see the inside of a multiplex. Unless, of course, Toronto's enthusiastic crowds tip Hollywood off to something it missed...
...during the presidential campaign of 1992 that the young Arkansas governor turned a swanky, colorful Hollywood studio with velvet couches and a host dressed more like a night clubber than an emcee into a political platform. For the previous three decades, the televised image of candidates had largely been of dark-suited, serious men selling themselves as if they were on a job interview. But that June night Clinton blew his saxophone into campaign history on The Arsenio Hall Show, boosting his carefully calculated image as a fresh candidate who was better suited than incumbent George Bush to lead...