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...star of scores of films, including Some Like it Hot and The Defiant Ones, Tony Curtis now spends his time painting and writing. His latest is American Prince, which details his long career in Tinseltown. Curtis talked to TIME about being an aging actor, hooking up with Marilyn Monroe, and why living well is the best revenge...
Once upon a time, YouTube was a haven for amateurs, with its "broadcast yourself" tagline, home movies and lip-synched musical numbers. Now it's playing host to Hollywood professionals. On Friday, Magnolia Pictures is premiering The Princess of Nebraska, the latest film from director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhattan), via streaming video in the recently launched YouTube Screening Room...
...surprise to see filmmakers and distributors looking for a new model for connecting films with audiences. Last month, Michael Moore released his latest documentary, Slacker Uprising, online and free of charge. For Magnolia, premiering Wang's film on YouTube provides a unique solution to an unusual challenge. Late last year, Wang was completing work on two films: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, both adaptations of stories by Yiyun Li that focus on three generations of Chinese natives now living in America. Prayers, which was released in select art houses in September, tells the tale...
...Gist: In his latest book, the Stanford professor and Wired columnist rails against the nation's copyright laws - regulations he believes are futile, costly and culturally stifling. Citing "hybrid" economies like YouTube and Wikipedia (both of which rely on user-generated "remixes" of information, images and sound), Lessig argues in favor of what he calls a "Read/Write (RW)" culture - as opposed to "Read/Only (RO)" - that allows consumers to "create art as readily as they consume...
...title of Thomas Friedman’s latest book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America” recycles the title of his earlier bestseller, “The World is Flat.” Unfortunately, the rest of the material also seems reused. Friedman’s fifth book attempts a rousing reveille to the Energy Climate Era, where global warming, world-wide middle class expansion, and population growth led to the titular characteristics: hot, flat, and crowded. The book tells a five-part story...