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Although it is nice that Hollywood is addressing racial politics in a thriller rather than the occasional liberal-soothing polemic like “Crash,” modern race relations demands a focused narrative and an intelligent directorial hand...
...runaway popularity of the “gangsta rap” aesthetic in the 1990s conferred star status on Cube and enabled him to make the transition from recording studios in South Central to film studios in Hollywood. His first major role was in Singleton’s “Boyz,” and the commercial and critical success of that film proved that Cube was a bankable actor. Perhaps seeking to capitalize upon his initial success, Cube’s more recent projects have been increasingly mainstream (read: spineless...
...Nintendo. After the release of 32-bit systems like the Sony Playstation, it became apparent that the classic age of "video game music" was coming to a close. New consoles had the processing power and storage capacity to accommodate CD-quality audio, pushing game soundtracks into the realm of Hollywood films. Today's high-end video games often feature unreleased tracks or already famous compositions from established artists.Before its recent leap into the broader music world, game music was an insular genre, one which made the careers of aspiring composers like Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka and Koji Kondo in Japan. Only...
...character less free and easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels for $700 a night, and hear about the local incarnate lama who is fêted in Hollywood for his movie The Cup. Thimphu is the place on which foreign sights are set (even though fewer than 10,000 official tourists still visit every year), not Kathmandu. "You know anything about motorbiking across Bhutan?" a snaggle-toothed hippie asked me as he let me into a Californian hot-springs...
...TIME's article on the perils of multitasking with communication devices was just what the doctor ordered for our obsessed society. I see more people like the Hollywood producer you described as a "fidgety, demanding, chattering, whirling dervish of a task juggler." They are not only addicted to their electronic gadgets, but they also take tremendous pride in overusing them. Your story says it is more productive to focus on one task at a time, but my cure for e-mail and cell-phone addiction was to quit the rat race altogether. I haven't touched a cell phone, BlackBerry...