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jfbEvery few years a movie musical makes money, and the entertainment press wonders if this heralds the return of a genre that hasn't really gone away. Last time out it was Chicago. There are a bunch of new ones on the way, like a hip-hop remake of Bye Bye Birdie and, at long last, a film version of Mel Brooks's stage classic The Producers.
Why yes, Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital is an adaptation of Lars von Trier's The Kingdom. King says it's the best thing he's done.
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A cool exhibit of ice and snow sculpture in Finland.
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Loretta Lux's eerie, lightly photoshopped pictures of children.
Why yes, Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital is an adaptation of Lars von Trier's The Kingdom. King says it's the best thing he's done.
The hot thing in London: Soul food.
What's wrong with the best foreign film Oscar.
A nice profile of Chris Weitz and his new play.
Salvatore Giuliano, a 1961 political docudrama that can barely see its subject.
Remember Starsky and Hutch?
Kelefa Sanneh's Playlist praises Mindy Smith.
A cool exhibit of ice and snow sculpture in Finland.
New York's Skyscraper Museum.
Loretta Lux's eerie, lightly photoshopped pictures of children.
Kingdom Hospital
Date: 2004-03-04 12:13 am (UTC)Since when does ripping off someone else's work and throwing a dramatization of your own "near-death" accident into a series qualify as anything other than half-ass plagiarism at best?
What are we seeing here? Did King's memory loss from getting hit by a van jumbled with renting von Trier's series back in '97? I've seen several news shows where King attributes his accident as the sole basis for "Kingdom Hospital".
Please... All he's done is slap the "Steven King's" label on "Kingdom" so we know he's ordained to grace us all with another one of his frustrating, anti-climactic, made-for-television endings to von Trier's unfinished "obscure 5-hour Danish television movie".
Re: Kingdom Hospital
Date: 2004-03-04 09:19 am (UTC)