Anyone know why this movie got canned? Lack of time, perhaps? I never read much about it.

Somehow I didn't think that the focus on LA/Hollywood and the comparison to an actor such as Keanu made much sense. For this paper, I myself would've chosen a "star" type of actor who also plays into the hype and the personal embodiment of Hollywood. Keanu's reluctance to be seen as a star seems very contradictive to the author's constant focus on on him as just that. LA/Hollywood is a "star" that collectively wants to be seen as such, while Keanu is the exact opposite: a quiet, unwilling "star" who just wants to be seen as a hard-working actor. A craftsman, really. He's not enough of a traditional moviestar to be compared to the star qualities of Hollywood.

When was this written, by the way? 1999-2000'ish?

Also, I don't like the structure of this paper. I would expect a synopsis/abstract and a summary layout of the author's theory at the beginning. This just doesn't cut it as a "professional" layout for an academic paper.

Oh oh oh, such fun! I have just discovered that you can vote both from Firefox and Internet Explorer and get it registered as two separete votes. And I just setup my third (new! yay!) computer, so I voted from that one, too. {Snicker!}

I just voted for the umpteenth time, and lo and behold -- we're now up to 63%. It's working! Persistence pays off in the end. So keep klicking: http://www.empireonline.com/100sexiest2009/men/default.asp?star=48

We're still at 62%, folks. Voting is going pretty slowly. I've found out that I can vote once a day from the same computer, so that's what I do. Plus I vote from my work computer as well. ;-)

Hey, we've gone down from 62% to 61%! It must be those pesky Jensen Ackles fans at #47. They've voted their guy up to 88%. I bet they're sabotaging our campaign! Argh!

....at least we can see Keanu's balls in this picture: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wedZNn2Os0U/SuTZFBYlsaI/AAAAAAAAEsI/zKT1JvNj5BU/960843809443.jpg

ROTFL! I just love this. Keanu getting in the boot/trunk of a car because there are no other places to sit. Yup, sounds just like Our Man to get a kick out of that.

I wonder if this was when he was in England working on Dracula. That was in 1991 or thereabouts, wasn't it? If so, then he looked and acted like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XycPYCNx04 and probably just loved to do something as wacky as riding in the boot of someone's beat-up old car.

OK, we're now up to 60%. It's working!

So nice to read a Dogstar concert review that doesn't focus almost entirely on Keanu-the-star and how the crowd was only there because of him. :-)

I wonder which publication it was published in.