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Lost in Beijing (2007)
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"A strange, 800-word “how I spent my summer vacation” piece from Todd McCarthy in Variety. The critic apparently stayed in a hotel in Barcelona adjacent to the set of the film Woody Allen’s currently shooting there. He spotted Allen and Harvey Weinstein from the other side of the barricades; he tried to get on the set, but the production assistant he spoke to was unyielding. Very bloggy, but in a depressing way — if this is the closest Variety’s film critic can get to Woody Allen, what chance do the rest of us have? Speaking of Harvey, at a party for The Nanny Diaries in New York, he explained the decision to bump the film’s release date up two weeks to August 24: “There is nothing for females right now.” Jamie Foxx will star in The Soloist, a musical biopic about “a homeless musician with schizophrenia who dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall.” With a major "
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"Tobey Maguire gets serious in Spider-Man 3 By Eric Kohn Restraining every ounce of my cynical proclivities, I have to admit that the idea of throwing a “Spider-Man Week” in New York is undeniably cute. The iconic comic book hero has all the messianic symbolism of Superman and still carries an everyman status. Peter Parker, the web-slinging photo geek behind the arachnid mask, simultaneously exudes the innocence of big city aspirations and the woeful self-criticism of its current youth culture. It would’ve been nice, however, if the reason for celebration were pegged to authentic creativity. That’s something, I’m sorry to say, that Spider-Man 3 sorely lacks. Former indie slasher director Sam Raimi’s latest entry in the lucrative franchise carries a drove of good intentions and comes up short in almost every regard. The story begins in media res, with earnest Parker (Tobey Maguire, geekier than ever) ready to pop the question to his darling Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst, painf ... "
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