Piku Dear White People : will the UK listen to race comedy
Dir: Britt Allcroft. 2000. UK-US. 86 mins.Prod co: Destination Films, Gullane Pictures. Co-prod: Mark Jacobson. Domestic dist: Icon Distribution. Int l Sales: Kathy Morgan International. Exec prods: Charles Falzon, Nancy Chapelle, Barry London, Brent Baum, John Bertolli. Prods: Allcroft, Phil Fehrle. Scr: Allcroft. Dop: Paul Ryan. Prod des: Oleg Savytski. Ed: Ron Wisman. Music: Hummie Mann. Main cast: Peter Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Mara Wilson, Didi Conn.This Thomas owes more t
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stanley cup the 1980s than to Reverend Awdry s charming children s stories, laced here with numerous human characters that leave the talking
stanley cup trains shunted on to a siding. British viewers will also be dismayed at the extent to which the tales have been Americanised, from the railroad in the title to the sight of people playing baseball on a traditional English village green and the renaming of the Fat Controller as the non-sizeist Sir Topham Hat. With scant appeal to adults in search of nostalgia, the film will find its audience among very small and undiscerning viewers. It s unlikely to hold out long in cinemas against technically superior children s fare like Dinosaur or Stuart Little - which opens in Britain and other European markets this summer - but its timetable should be extended to take in lengthy trips to the video shelves.The needlessly complicated story moves between five different settings: the Island of Soder, land of the talking trains; the small railroad Iuoe Talking Tribeca
Robert Lazarus, a veteran ofthe film industry who worked at companies including Turner Pictures and MutualFilm Co, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 43 after a long pulmonaryillness.Lazarus, a popular figure inthe entertainment industry both in the US and in international markets, leavesbehind his life partner John E Ferraro of Los Angeles, California, his parentsHerb and Shelley Lazarus of Woodland Hills, California, his brother Sid ofTulsa, Oklahoma, and his brother Michael, of Ventura, California.Lazarus career encompassedboth domestic and international, film and television. He started inentertainment as Western Regional Affiliate Sales and Marketing Manager forpremium cable service
stanley cup The Disney Channel before entering the independent filmbusiness as President, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Vista StreetEntertainment where he established relationships with distributors around theworld and helped shape the films he sold to them.His fast ascent in theindustry next saw him move to Ted Turner s Turner Broadcasting Systems where heheld the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager of TurnerPictures Worldwide Distribution Inc. At Turner, his range of responsibilitiescovered acquisition of films, sales, marketing, business development and legaland business affairs. Among his achievements at Turner was the cr
stanley canada eation ofdirect distribution and licensing deals in certain key territories.In 1996, Robert joine
stanley uk dParamount-based Mutual Film Company as Chief Oper
