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...Hulky was last among us five years ago in a movie that "disappointed" his fans and those of director Ang Lee, who usually operates at the "finer things" level of moviemaking. It apparently made enough money to encourage this sequel, and Norton plays him a little more soulfully (I think) than Eric Bana did five years ago, though it doesn't much matter to me that Bruce hates the hulky half of his schizoid personality. All monsters, from Frankenstein's onward, share that feeling and use it to enlist our sympathy. It's as routine in these movies...
...Incredible Hulk Directed by Louis Leterrier; rated PG-13; out now Less a sequel to the murky Ang Lee Hulk than an atonement for it, this muscular saga has Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) morphing into a more plausible 10-ft. green guy. The rooftop chases owe much to the Bourne movies, while the creature's romance-mismatch with stalwart Betty (Liv Tyler) suggests a pretty good remake of King Kong...
...success, to stamp out such scenes. In the 1990s, a series of scandals showed the damage that could be wrought if a brand was linked to shoddy labor practices overseas. For example, in 1996, it was alleged that a Wal-Mart clothes label endorsed by American TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford had been produced using child labor in Honduran sweatshops. Gifford sobbed on air, saying she hadn't been aware of conditions at the factory. For corporations and consumers alike, it brought home the realization that globalized production comes at a price: the cheap labor that lured multinationals to developing...
...Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen," Lee said at the Cannes Film Festival. "In his version of Iwo Jima, Negro soldiers did not exist." Eastwood's counter: "Has he ever studied history? [African-American soldiers] didn't raise the flag," he said. "If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, they'd say, "This guy's lost his mind.'" Eastwood also told Lee to "shut his face," prompting Lee to amplify the racism charge: "[Eastwood...
...History, as it turns out, is on both their sides. Lee is correct that African-Americans played an instrumental role in World War II, in which more than 1 million black servicemen helped defeat the Axis Powers. Those efforts include significant contributions to the fight for Iwo Jima. An estimated 700 to 900 African-American soldiers participated in the epic island battle, many of whom were Marines trained in segregated boot camps at Montford Point, within Camp Lejeune, North Carolina...