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...industry is movie-poster art. In Bangkok, block-long billboards picturing grotesque snake-entwined monsters hovering over eviscerated women may cost $40,000 and take 36 artists to paint. These gargantuan murals, which used to be thrown away, are suddenly being bought up by European museums. Som-boonsuk Niyomsiri, one of Bangkok's foremost poster painters, has gone on to become Thailand's biggest film producer−under the name of Piak Poster. His latest movie, American Surplus, deals with the discrimination suffered by the bastard offspring of black American GIs stationed in Thailand during the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Asia's Bouncing World of Movies | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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