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...making his way through sex comedies and slapstick, he settled on action films as his genre of choice. But more than that, he came to dominate the genre and all of Hong Kong film. "A Better Tomorrow," his 1986 gangster film, remains the biggest money maker in Hong Kong cinema history...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...
...CINEMA: Save This Whale...
...Japanese imports of U.S. products. But the U.S.'s whining about one export category -- movies, TV, records; in short, pop -- was muted. And that's because America rules: America's market share of movies in Japan is 49.7%, up from 30% just five years ago. In the lands of cinema -- France, Germany, Italy -- Hollywood now accounts for two-thirds of all movie tickets sold, twice the share a decade ago. The standard explanation has been the economics of special effects: only Hollywood can produce the big, dumb, violent blockbusters that every earthling understands. But these days, movies like Sommersby...
MUSIC A luminous CD set affirms the Beach Boys' place in pop history. THEATER Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is the best British play in years. BOOKS David Halberstam engrossingly surveys The Fifties. A brilliant, flawed novel by Richard Powers. CINEMA Rookie of the Year strikes out. SHOW BUSINESS Disney offers an uninspired stage extravaganza...