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Hollywood has no plans in the works to make any film about the current international crisis that might inspire audiences "to rally for our troops" as it did following the outbreak of World War II, USA Today observed today.
ABC has forbidden its reporters from wearing lapel flags in the aftermath of last week's attacks.
HOLLYWOOD, July 17, 2000 -- Memo to Hollywood: If you're going to make a Revolutionary War movie, just remember that the British critics don't forgive and forget. "The Patriot," that big-budget, action-oriented take on the American Revolution, was raked by film reviewers in the United Kingdom for its portrayal of King George III's army as marauding, church-burning warriors. As a result, the film made just $1.5 million during its first weekend in England and Ireland. To put that into perspective, that's about one-fourth the amount that "The Gladiator" earned. "'The Patriot' should have been one of the big summer films in the U.K. as well as elsewhere,'' Mary Scott, a journalist with the trade publication Screen International, told Reuters. "It is typical Hollywood ego to just go ahead and make something they think everyone will see and like regardless. It will cer
HOLLYWOOD, July 6, 2000 -- Spike Lee hates "The Patriot." The director of "Summer of Sam," "Malcolm X" and other films blasted the Mel Gibson Revolutionary War-epic-cum-action-movie in today's Hollywood Reporter, calling it "a complete whitewashing of history, revisionist history" because none of the characters, conveniently, are depicted as slaveholders. Lee also noted the absence of American Indians in the movie. "When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget, leave out or whatever, that America was built upon the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of African people. To say otherwise is criminal," Lee wrote in the trade's weekly guest column. Lee concluded his missive like this: "I say to producer Dean Devlin, director Roland Emmerich and [screenwriter Robert] Rodat that maybe SIZE DOES MATTER," alluding to the bombast