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WILL HOLLYWOOD BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS? Wednesday, February 13 2008 
Despite
continued
international
efforts
to
keep
politics
out
of
the
Olympic
Games,
Steven
Spielberg
has
withdrawn
as
artistic
adviser
for
the
Beijing
Olympics,
citing
China's
failure
to
use
its
economic
clout
to
force
a
resolution
of
the
crisis
in
Darfur.
"Sudan's
government
bears
the
bulk
of
the
responsibility
for
these
ongoing
crimes,
but
the
international
community,
and
particularly
China,
should
be
doing
more
to
end
the
continuing
suffering
there,"
Spielberg
said
in
his
statement.
China
(more)CHINA BARS FILMING OF WEINSTEIN CO. FILM Monday, February 11 2008 China's Film Bureau has informed the Weinstein Co. that it will not issue permits for the studio to film Shanghai, starring Gong Li and John Cusack, in Shanghai. Word of the refusal apparently caught director Mikael Hafstrom by surprise. According to Daily Variety, Hafstrom had spent the last six months in Shanghai preparing to shoot the film. "This obviously comes as a shock to all of us," Hafstrom told the trade publication. "We don't know (more) |
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