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...actual unspoiled Chinese forest.) As Zhang Ziyi matures, some might say her director is regressing. Perhaps the red lantern won't be raised again, and maybe China's aspiring serious moviemakers will need to find a new hero. To those who complain that the outlaw master has joined the mainstream: just lighten up. Zhang Yimou can, as Daggers proves, and the result is plenty of fun to watch...
...have to credit M. Night Shyamalan for bringing horror back to the Hollywood mainstream," says Walter F. Parkes, the DreamWorks exec who produced the U.S. Ring movies and has optioned the Korean doomed-family epic The Tale of Two Sisters. "The Sixth Sense was beautifully shot, well written, with a mature approach to the genre." It also grossed $294 million at the North American box office. That number will scare up a lot of converts...
...from the Armenian daily Novoye Vremya. Some 35% of the electorate supported nationalist parties in the last parliamentary elections, according to the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights. As leader of the neo-Nazi Freedom Party, based in St. Petersburg, Yuri Belyayev would love to be part of the political mainstream. A burly former police officer who positively beams with forced joviality, he supports President Vladimir Putin and believes the President shares some of his goals. "He is for rubbing out the [ethnic minorities] and for a strong Russia," Belyayev says, "and so are we." Back in the fall...
While the vast majority of attendees spent their time pursuing the mainstream interests of superheroes, manga properties and movies like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, fans of alternative comix had plenty to choose from. Proof of a rising tide lifting all boats, the indy publishers I spoke to were enjoying brisk and often record-breaking sales. Montreal's Drawn & Quarterly declared it the best year they ever had at San Diego, with Adrian Tomine's just-released "Scrapbook," a collection of ephemera by the former wunderkind, selling the best. The Seattle-based Fantagraphics reduced its table by half...
...Fahrenheit 9/11 and House of Bush, House of Saud by former Crimson editor Craig Unger ’71 have focused national scrutiny on the current administration’s cozy relationship with the Arab nation’s rulers, but Kerry’s more mainstream approach had previously steered clear of such territory...