Word: hollywoodizing
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...hate the executives who run television. And after creating what may be the most famous TV pilot that never aired--Heat Vision and Jack (1999), starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Owen Wilson--the impoverished writing duo took their revenge by starting an online network, channel101.com that cuts the Hollywood establishment out of the decision-making loop. The rules are simple: would-be TV producers make five-minute shows that are aired once a month at a West Hollywood bar, where a live audience votes on which ones should be put online and which pulled...
...said it was a fantasy - and Gabrielle (Vanessa Anne Hutchinson, from the Soledad O'Brien breed of smiling semi-hispanics) is the new brainiac, at a school that might as well be called Rainbow Coalition High. The hero and heroine's best friends are African-American; there's a Hollywood demographer's smattering of other ethnicities; and everyone is cheerfully color-blind...
...This is the way Hollywood, in its so-called Golden Age, socialized America: by showing beautiful people in chic clothes trying to behave honorably - sometimes while singing and dancing. It's not a stretch to say that movies taught the underclass how to act like the middle and upper classes. High School Musical and Take the Lead may be no one's idea of classic, or even very good, movies, but they are in that gentle pedagogic mold. And they are catching tweens at maybe the last age when they might acknowledge - in their secret, not-yet-stereotyped hearts - that...
...Jurassic Park,” and won him two Academy Awards.Despite the accolades, Knep felt trapped. “I wasn’t satisfied with what I was doing. I was a small cog in this giant machine,” he says of his Hollywood days. So, he quit.Knep decided that if he were going to stick with computers, it would have to be in a radically new way, in order to preserve his own sanity.“I think technology has a way of really separating us,” he says, his speech slowing slightly...
...helping digitally restore the Disney films her grandfather worked on. When I was growing up, I was so proud to see the Technicolor logo on the screen. And today when I see my daughter's name in the credits, I am just as proud. I don't understand Hollywood's reluctance to go digital. Perhaps younger producers will embrace Lucas' vision. Diana Robertson Laguna Niguel, California, U.S. Your headline asked, "Can this man save the movies? (Again?)," and I would say no. Not that Lucas isn't capable of doing almost anything with the art form, but very few people...