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...product that GenSan churns out in spades is fearless fighters. As in the barrios of east Los Angeles or the slums of Mexico City, professional boxing offers one of the few available routes out of the hopelessness of Mindanao. For Pacquiao, boxing may have been the only way. His parents separated when he was young, and his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, raised her six children on her paltry income from a series of odd jobs. Manny helped out by selling bread and taking in laundry, but in his spare time he would do gofer work at the local gym or pound...
Touborg suggested that these recent layoffs may also be a product of this strategy...
...SOSKIN: You’ve made a lot of great points, Mr. Chung. I think that there’s a simple solution to the studios’ overreliance on “safe” summer product, but it’d be a tough solution to put into practice. Yes, Hollywood needs talented studio heads who will develop compelling ideas, and yes, they need to give directors the creative control they deserve. But, most importantly, the studios have to find better writers and better scripts...
...importance of quality writing may be why those gross-out comedies that you praise are sometimes the best product of the summer—their imaginative excesses often require more creativity than one needs to write dialogue of the “It’s gonna blow!” variety. In the summer of ’98, the only two movies that I paid to see twice were extreme comedies—There’s Something About Mary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (which, admittedly, was an arthouse pukefest, rather than a mainstream...
...there nearly enough of them to go around? It’s logical that for such an involved, multi-tiered process as direction, only a few individuals might rise above the fray and establish themselves in the critical limelight. But there are hundreds of decent novelists churning out product on a weekly basis, and yet consistently accomplished screenwriters are few and far between...