Posts Tagged ‘Hollywood’

Planet Climatewood

Can Hollywood save the planet from global warming? The LA Times reports that Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, made his sales pitch last week at a UN outreach event: “I need your support,” he told entertainment industry insiders during a daylong forum Tuesday that focused on recent heat waves, floods, fires and drought,…Continue Reading…

Avatar's Cardboard Cutouts

It’s the 21st century and we’re still getting simplistic, cliched depictions of natives in Hollywood movies like Avatar. How is it possible that people are enthralled with this one-dimensional, sci-fi clunker?  I succumbed to the hype last night, mainly because I wanted to see what a $260 million dollar movie looks like. Aside from the…Continue Reading…