Starbuck

Recycling is a big deal in Hollywood right now. Not the green variety, where placing plastic and glass in the proper containers yields a healthier planet (although that has been quite the cause célèbre from time to time)—no, this is the more cynical version that produces a decidedly different kind of green, and is responsible for regurgitated versions of all manner of material, from lackluster 1970s television to Asian police dramas. Studios believe that familiarity breeds content, and if an audience is even vaguely aware of the original, that audience will choose a mediocre known quantity over risk with the...  read more