Posted AT 3:10 AM EDT on 14/05/08
Serious filmmaking has Hollywood playing second fiddle
LIAM LACEY
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
CANNES, FRANCE Outside the Carlton Hotel, workmen have pasted a giant poster of Robert Downey Jr. in blackface, promoting his part in the upcoming Ben Stiller comedy, Tropic Thunder. The garish image is a reminder that Cannes is in the business of selling what most people call movies as well as what cinephiles call cinema.
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