It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.