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Part of your book talks about the depiction of mad scientists in Hollywood films. Do you think film and television producers can realistically portray scientists considering they have to sometimes use stereotypes or exaggeration to get people to watch what they produce? I don't think that we can demand incredibly high levels of fidelity to what scientists actually do. What I think we can shoot for is positive role-model figures who are scientists. What really leaves audiences with a positive outlook on the scientific world is if the smart character is actually heroic for being smart...
...from No. 46 in 2007. But he has never bent the knee to Putin. In Lebedev we find, if you like, the good oligarch - the Russian with whom Westerners can do business. He has made friends with prominent people in London (Elton John, Margaret Thatcher) and Hollywood (Kevin Spacey, John Malkovich), floating freely between boardrooms and state dinners. In March, Lebedev traveled to Washington with Gorbachev, who was slated to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. "I do and say whatever I want," he says. "If somebody wants to kill me, I do not treat it as enough reason...
...Hollywood wrong in putting its money on Katherine Heigl to be the next Julia Roberts? Heigl, a large, pretty actress of farm-girl robustness and pale orange skin and hair tones, had emerged from the cast of Grey's Anatomy to serve as Seth Rogen's femme foil in the surprise hit Knocked Up, then scored on her own as the perpetual bridesmaid in 27 Dresses. More than Reese Witherspoon and Kate Hudson, her prime rivals among early-30s contenders for the Roberts ring, Heigl radiated a pensive solidity that, if properly exploited, could have spurred the return...
...still in midsummer, yet there's only one ginormous action adventure (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) awaiting release, and not a cartoon hero or a dinosaur - or a cartoon dinosaur - in sight. Suddenly it's the time of real people learning how to cope with recognizable problems. The Hollywood kind of problems - the ones that can be solved in under two hours. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...Days of Summer had a boffo opening, earning $31,000 per screen for an $838,000 total in a limited opening. Those numbers stoked hopes at Fox Searchlight for a hit of Junoesque proportions: $143 million in North America. But they won't change the business model for Hollywood, which drools over the thought of finding another series of books it can spin into even more movies than the eight Harry Potters. Well, the Old Testament has, by some counts, 46 books, including some internal sequels (1 Kings, 2 Kings). Granted, down around Obadiah, the opportunities for special effects...