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...mores of the other's culture. That technique is evident in The Song Dog, the title of which refers to a tribal folkloric figure who speaks in Delphic riddles. Once Kramer formally meets Zondi, halfway through the book -- after assuming he is a Bantu hoodlum, not an undercover cop -- they quickly form a bond. Kramer is not a white of great racial sensitivity, or Zondi a black of great deference. But they respect each other because they keep reaching the same conclusions -- while reflecting cultural differences by getting there through divergent, if equally plausible, chains of reasoning...
...segment of Naked Hollywood that U.S. viewers will not see features producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who created such blockbusters as Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun. Paramount Pictures, where the duo worked until last fall, refused to grant permission to air clips from their movies -- clips that constitute a hefty portion of the episode. The studio claims it was acceding to Simpson and Bruckheimer's demand; they deny it. Producer Nicolas Kent says he is "mystified" at why the pair would be unhappy with the show and is appalled at Paramount's position. Says he of the studio...
...best, Naked Hollywood puts a human twist on the familiar tales of Hollywood mass production and megalomania. One sequence tracks the relay team of writers hired by producer-director Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...
...failure of the military to speak with a unified voice raised several possibilities. The generals may have been orchestrating a sophisticated good cop-bad cop routine. Perhaps events were moving so swiftly that the threat from Adzic was rendered moot by Slovenia's subsequent announcement of a unilateral cease-fire. Or maybe the generals were acting at cross-purposes...
...this time of a more symbolic kind, turns out to be a fair exchange. The hitchhiker, using Thelma's hair dryer as a gun substitute, teaches her the tricks of his dubious trade; soon she is doing hold-ups. It is Thelma too who gets the drop on a cop who stops the two women for speeding, orders him into the trunk of his squad car, and gently warns him to be sweet to his wife, adding, "My husband wasn't sweet to me, and look how I turned...