Boyd Farrow
Articles by Boyd Farrow
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Culture
Hollywood missionaries
- 21 November 2005
In a drive to boost revenues, American film bosses are targeting the country's 30 million evangelical Christians. And the religious right is proving only too glad to help them along, reports Boyd Farrow
Culture
Will Hollywood's blokes please stand up?
- 07 November 2005
With the absence of good old-fashioned heroes to provide the cliff-hangers and clinches, Hollywood has started outsourcing its parts for "proper" men to hunks from Australia, Britain and Ireland
Culture
An own goal
- 29 August 2005
Why is America immune to the charms of soccer? Perhaps because Hollywood has never paid it any attention. Now, it looks like Tinseltown has been bribed to do something about it. Boyd Farrow investigates footie's arrival at the flicks
Culture
The A-listers' belief system
- 01 August 2005
Why was there a Scientology tent on the set of War of the Worlds? Boyd Farrow explains how this cult religion, whose followers believe that people are immortal spiritual beings, is gaining ground thanks to support from Hollywood's biggest stars
Culture
Gimme the money
- 11 July 2005
The film business - As the summer blockbusters limp into cinema box offices, Boyd Farrow urges Hollywood to take a long, hard look at where the cash is going
Culture
Give pirates a break
- 21 February 2005
Black market - The studios are crying theft, but their pleas of poverty don't add up. Boyd Farrow investigates
