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...person burst into song in front of me today. That's supposed to be the problem with movie musicals as far as contemporary audiences go. According to conventional Hollywood wisdom, today's moviegoers, especially the ones born P.G. (post-Grease, or after 1978) are turned off by the implausibility of spontaneous song and dance numbers. But I don't buy it. Not one person got a spider bite and turned into a superhero in front of me today, either, and yet record numbers of folks of all ages happily suspended disbelief for Spider...
...Most Hollywood movies can go from script to screen in under a year. Making an animated film, he said, "is like a transatlantic submarine journey," with lengthy stages of writing, recording the voice talent and the nearly endless stages of creating the images; it's not just PhotoShopping. Even now, less than six months before the Nov. 2 U.S. premiere, some of the sequences were not finished. But the script is there, and it's very Jerry...
...Smoke Screen Your article about how Hollywood glamorizes smoking was illustrated with photos of Scarlett Johansson, Terrence Howard and Jack Nicholson lighting up in recent films [April 30]. You did not mention that all three were playing criminals. We don't see a lot of heroes smoking in films anymore. We do, however, still see lots of movie heroes solving their problems with fists and guns. That's a bigger problem than cigarettes. William Flanagan, New York City...
...this the only negative thing about Hollywood movies? Smoking is the least of the problems. What about all the graphic sex, violence, consumption of booze and drugs, and use of foul language? Our kids see those behaviors and imitate them. So why worry only about the smoking? I would rather see the smoking and get rid of the rest of the filth. John Gleason, Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...Hollywood isn't supposed to be a meritocracy. It's for the good-looking and the born-to-famous-parents and those brave enough to make out sloppily on reality shows. At the very least, the merely talented are supposed to spend years struggling until they're discovered. But Seth Rogen--a fat, awkwardly old-man-ish 16-year-old kid in Vancouver--went to his first local audition and got hired on NBC's Freaks and Geeks. And now, having just turned 25, he is the lead in one of this summer's biggest romantic movies...