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Singling out ID4 for special praise is as curious as his commendation for True Lies in his earlier Movietown foray. Well, maybe not: both have heroines who strip and both were produced by 20th Century Fox, the studio controlled by Rupert Murdoch, a schlockmeister and heavy G.O.P. supporter who has contributed to Dole...
...Collins; $45). On May 20, 1992, 75 photographers invaded Movietown for 24 hours. They emerged with a revealing album of stars and wannabees: tots holding their 8-by-10 glossies; Harrison Ford, burned out from too many interviews; Hugh Hefner coming to the door accompanied by a Doberman. Hollywood has never looked so energetic, wealthy or anxious...
...Last Tycoon is a reasonably scrupulous adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished tragedy about the strange refractions of Monroe Stahr's life. It makes for a flawed, divided movie, sometimes full of cool, funny insight, sometimes crippled by the flyaway myths of movietown...
Shaw is the name that dominates the movie business of Southeast Asia. Shaw Brothers' films, produced at Shaw's Movietown, shot in Shawscope color and shown in 143 Shaw-owned theaters, attract 250,000 people a day from Hong Kong to Jakarta, plus thousands more in Chinatowns around the world. Shaw Brothers grind out 40 titles a year (newest crop: Black Magic, Killer Clans, Five Shaolin Masters)−a sort of column A, column B menu of Oriental weepers with suicidal beauties, or Eastern Westerns featuring Kung Fu Mandarins...
...motion picture potentate who rules this vast empire (which also includes amusement parks, shopping centers and office buildings) from his Movietown in Hong Kong is a grandfather of nine children, Run Run Shaw, 68. An older brother, Runme, 74, handles distribution from an alternate base in Singapore. "Everything is me and Runme," is how Run Run Shaw describes their joint holdings, valued at well over $100 million. But it is Run Run who makes all the movies (500 so far) and manages the business...