May
31
Sex and the City
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha are four years older than they were when their Emmy-winning series ended. As the movie version of Sex and the City begins, they are no wiser. By the conclusion, however, at least a few of life’s lessons have been
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May
31
The Strangers
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
A beautiful young woman clutches a raised knife and advances fearfully into the dark unknown. It's long been a visual cliché in slasher and bad horror flicks, but The Strangers is neither. It stars Liv Tyler as Kristen, the woman trying to fend off dang
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May
30
The War in Color
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
To our eyes the past is black and white. From photographs of the Civil War through early footage of the Civil Rights Movement, the catalog of historical images is drawn mostly from black and white still and motion pictures. Even the existence of color f
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May
26
Robot Ghosts in Japanese Science Fiction
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
From Godzilla through Ghost in the Shell, from movies through television and video games, Japanese science fiction has found avid audiences beyond the home islands as its exponents explored uncharted lands of the imagination. It has also influenced West
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May
22
Tom Brokaw Remembers MLK
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Forty years after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a black man stands a chance of becoming President. Perhaps America has finally become the Promised Land King foretold in one of his much quoted sermons—a land he somehow knew he woul
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May
20
What's With Charlie Chan
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Considering Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan, one of the most famous of fictional detectives, has become the one least seen. Until the 1960s, old Charlie Chan movies remained a staple of afternoon television. And then, in the early ‘70s, flush with the exam
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May
19
Iranian Revolution
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
All eyes have turned to Iran in art houses around the world and the international film festival circuit. For the past two decades Iranian directors such as Abbas Kiarostami and Bahman Ghobadi have made acclaimed films despite working under the restric
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May
16
Ingrid Bergman: Getting Personal
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Ingrid Bergman’s screen career had several unexpected peaks and downward turns; her height was the quietly lucid performance she gave in Casablanca as the wife of an anti-Nazi agitator, torn between loyalty for him and love for the cynical expatriat
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May
12
Hugh Laurie's Other Show
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
Hugh Laurie plays the physician Paul Slippery in the British TV series “Fortysomething,” out now on DVD. The resemblance to his role in the popular American series “House” ends with careers in medicine. Gregory House is rude and razor sharp, puncturing
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May
10
Night of the Shooting Stars
David Luhrssen I Hate Hollywood
The opening scene of The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) glows with a fairytale light. It’s a darkened bedroom overlooking a night sky in impossibly vivid, coloring book shades of blue. The “once upon a time” arrives at once: in a voice over a mother
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