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...food turns out great, and it actually feeds five for lunch: Colicchio, me, my wife, the photographer and his assistant. And we down it with a $2 bottle of Charles Shaw, which is actually just fine. I'm going to make it through these tough economic times. Because my job leaves me more than enough time for shopping and growing herbs...
...France, the Brooklyn-based director turns from tortured crime movies (The Yards, We Own the Night) to a story of romantic obsession: after a couple of suicide attempts, a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with a troubled rich girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) rather than the nice girl (Vinessa Shaw) his parents want him to marry. This is one long toothache of a movie, painfully earnest, not preposterous enough to be enjoyed as camp, and a waste of some very good actors. The Paris critics called Two Lovers "sublime," which sounds even better in French. Maybe something in Gray...
...brutal slayings ended some two and a half years later, sensationalistic coverage of the Ripper was relentless, his exploits recounted by reporters and artists in a manner that exposed the squalor of Whitechapel to a fascinated audience - and shaped London's perception of the East End. Playwright George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Jack the Ripper did more than any social reformer to draw attention to the intolerable conditions of Whitechapel's slums...
...name a Singaporean film of the 1970s and '80s, it's because hardly any were made. The city-state's movie industry still hadn't recovered from the once dominant Shaw Brothers and Cathay studios' decision to relocate almost all production to Hong Kong decades earlier. Only in the mid-1990s did a new generation of filmmakers - taking advantage of new technology and lower production costs - take up cameras again. Among them was Eric Khoo, whose 1995 debut Mee Pok Man told of the tormented relationship between a noodle cook and a prostitute, and inaugurated a new wave of films...
...Does social and political conservatism explain the dearth of Singaporean film before the 1990s? KHOO: No, basically we had a very thriving film industry. But when Sir Run Run Shaw left for Hong Kong and [influential Malaysian actor and director] P. Ramlee went back to Malaysia, things changed. If you think of movies produced back in the '50s, the budgets were, like, up to a million, and they were huge in Southeast Asia. UEKRONGTHAM: It's not so much about social control but trying to focus on economic progress. And maybe now is the time when they can focus...