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...it’s hard to say,” she says. “It’s an industry where actors and actresses are disposable.”Regardless of Johansson’s status as a Hollywood A-lister (both threatened and cemented this year by mega-flop “The Island” and the widely praised “Match Point”), she is, in the end, something of an ordinary twentysomething. She’s maybe even a little introverted. To celebrate her 21st birthday, only a few days after the time...
...seriousness, this flick could be a winner, and Mr. Clooney is pretty hot with a scraggly beard. “Something’s rotten in the State of Japanese-Chinese Relations”—IMDB.com recently reported a quotation from a blogger who wrote that mega-hot Chinese superstar Ziyi Zhang “is a traitor to her country. Shooting her would not be an adequate punishment.” What the (presumably Chinese) blogger is referring to is her starring role in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” in which...
...released today (see B1), is an extended Christian allegory that is being specifically marketed to Christian audiences. Last year, “The Passion of the Christ” made $370 million domestically, mainly on the strength of its appeal to Christian audiences.In the wake of these mega-successes, Christian audiences have attained a special new prominence in American mass media that they haven’t had before, and aren’t likely to recede into the background any time in the near future. The most surprising aspect of this push is in video games, a media particularly...
...chatted with members of the “National, Faith & Hispanic Television Press,” according to an itinerary provided by Disney. It was another round in a two-pronged publicity strategy. Even as Disney and Walden push to make “Wardrobe” the next mega-event in worldly cinematic fantasy, they have begun mobilizing the legions who swear by the Narnia books’ allegorical Christian themes.Last year, Motive Marketing worked through churches to make Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” a smash...
...Literally.But have any of the shows I’ve been to actually achieved That One Show status? Um, sort of? I mean, weirdly enough, I think the only concert I went to where I actually really felt good and gratified the whole time was a Steamroller-ish mega-event: Prince, live at the Allstate Arena in summer 2004. But those things aren’t even guarantees—the one hip-hop mega event show I ever went to (J-Kwon and the Ying-Yang Twins were there!) was really slow, the crowd didn’t dance...