Lust Ban: Trade Roughage 03/07/08

By Karina Longworth posted 7 months ago

The Chinese censors have reportedly placed a media ban on actress Tang Wei, due to her sex scenes in Lust, Caution. This means she can’t attend award show or appear on television, and the nation’s print media has been ordered to pull all feature stories about her.
Anne Thompson eulogizes New Line, with help from John Waters, who recalls, “They were the first ones to mix art and exploitation, which is where I was coming from.”
A Sopranos producer is writing a “NASCAR drama” for Gary Ross to direct at Universal. Ross seems particularly excited about depicting a sport that people actually care about: “I used blow-up dolls for crowd scenes in Seabiscuit, but that won’t be necessary in a sport where there are 150,000 fans in the stands every Sunday.”