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'Brothers': Hollywood Effs Up Again
3 December 2009 3:12 PM, PST
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By Desson Thomson
Talk about lost in translation.
When American movies try to remake European ones, why do they fail so frequently?
Latest case in point: “Brothers,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire and, in the worst bit of casting since John Wayne played Genghis Khan in 1950’s “The Conqueror,” Natalie Portman as a military wife.
Is it because English -- or Hollywood -- is the cultural equivalent of an X-ray machine that reduces all other languages and cultures to a sort of dorky banality? Is it because American scriptwriters can’t help thems
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- Lew Harris
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[TV] Zorro: The Complete Second Season
5 November 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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By the time that Zorro had completed its first season, the Disney company had virtually cornered its television demographic through various programs, not the least of which were Zorro, Walt Disney Presents, and the Mickey Mouse Club. Uncle Walt having the dedication to perfection that he did, he set the bar pretty high for the second season, wanting to maintain everything that had made the show so popular (granted, most shows face such a challenge, but many producers are content to allow their product to suck as much as it did the first time around). Back again to kick around some more bad guys are Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) the young, rich son of a don whose alter ego should be painfully obvious to anyone in the immediate area, his faithful manservant Bernardo (Gene Sheldon), who speaks only through pantomime, and Sergeant Garcia (Henry Calvin), the obese, villainous comic relief.
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- Anders Nelson
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John Wayne’s Unseen Final Film — A Sci-Fi Western — Will Finally Be Released
9 July 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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30 years after his death, John Wayne is still appearing in movies. The Hollywood icon’s final film, a never-before-released independent titled “Thunder Riders of the Golden West,” is about to hit DVD. The sci-fi western was produced in 1984 and features footage of Wayne that was shot before the actor died of stomach cancer in 1979, according to an article in a local Texas newspaper. Whether this footage was filmed specifically for “Thunder Riders” is unclear.
“Thunder Riders” was produced by Dave Burleson, a bit-part actor and stuntman who was apparently good friends with Wayne. He clarified to the Kerrville Daily News that “it’s not the last movie he acted in, but it’s the last performance to be released.” So that would mean Wayne’s role in this film was performed many years before he died, since the last movie he acted in was the 1976 western “The Shootist.”
Wayne has
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- Christopher Campbell
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