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...reaction to Princess Diana's death: "WINNER... Best Actress... Best Screenplay... New York Film Critics Circle." Word of our decisions will lodge in the brains of Academy members. And if they don't, the studios will remind them with daily double-truck ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter...
...Everyone knows the monster this boy evolved into: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the brilliant psychiatrist who murdered people and ate them. In 2003, the American Film Institute chose his screen incarnation, by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, as the No. 1 villain in Hollywood history. (Clarice Starling, the FBI agent played by Jodie Foster in Silence, was named the top female movie hero. But that was due to either affirmative action or gilt by association.) The AFI also chose Hannibal's description of how his disposed of one of his victims - "I ate his liver with some fava...
...last decade Hollywood has largely exhausted the story-telling craft and, for the most part, the star-making business. The industry had nowhere to go but backward: into the prehistory of its most popular characters. So in hope of recycling old heroes for a teen audience, it explored the early years in the legends of Superman, Batman, James Bond and Bugs Bunny, Indiana Jones and Darth Vader. So why, for love of commerce or love of his creation, shouldn't Harris examine Hannibal in his pupal or pubertal stage...
...younger. We feel good that we can do all the cool things we want to do.... In one week, we had a party in New York where the Eagles performed to celebrate Wal-Mart's commitment to environmental sustainability, then we opened Bobby with a star-studded premiere in Hollywood. We've taken periodic odysseys across America and internationally to build partnerships with RAI Television in Italy and TF1 in France and ARD in Germany. We're laying down an infrastructure...
...than a Brioni suit, an Omega watch and an Aston Martin. From your article, I understood how the movie industry's obsession with the hyperkinetic brutality of action films is choking the sophisticated elegance of 007. Isn't there any way to make more room for cultural diversity in Hollywood? Hiroaki Goda Kasuga, Japan