DVD’s retail revolution
The unprecedented success of DVD—the most film-maker friendly medium yet—is transforming Hollywood out of all recognition
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Playboy magazine's founder, Hugh Hefner, hosted a party in April for Quentin Tarantino's “Kill Bill”. The gates of his Tinseltown mansion were flung open, and naked Playmates painted in the movie's signature yellow tended to the appetites of the very rich and very famous. So far, so what? Mr Hefner and Hollywood have been bosom buddies since the 1960s.
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