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...when PBS aired the Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...largely ineffective message. "Our marketing has become too democratic," says Irwin Kruger, a New York City franchisee, who this week will open his massive McDonald's in Times Square, complete with a video-laced menu board, flat-panel displays with subway maps and movie schedules, and his own creation, Mini McDonuts...
...tanks in the streets, democratic politicians thrown into jail, and personal liberties curtailed. Nothing like that happened, of course. Apart from anything else, Beijing knew better than to arouse international concern or upset the carefully crafted agreements with London over autonomy and the Basic Law, Hong Kong's new mini-constitution...
...largely ineffective message. "Our marketing has become too democratic," says Irwin Kruger, a New York City franchisee, who this week will open his massive McDonald's in Times Square, complete with a video-laced menu board, flat-panel displays with subway maps and movie schedules, and his own creation, Mini McDonuts...
...five years ago?July 1, 1997, to be exact. Coincidental with the handover from British to Chinese rule, the territory's thriving film community lost much of its spark. For decades, domestic product out-grossed the big Hollywood offerings, but Hong Kong has become just another struggling local mini-industry. Part of the problem is the brain drain to the U.S. of directors like Woo and top stars Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li. Even the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Australian Emigr? whose bold, painterly eye set the palette for Wong Kar-wai's moody dramas, has gone traveling...