{"id":1999,"date":"2005-08-09T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1999"},"modified":"2005-08-09T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T23:19:39","slug":"hollywoodbollyw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/hollywoodbollyw\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood\/Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.planethollywood.com\/merch01.shtm\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/PlanetBollywood.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/A>The giant, shiny flying phallus of American cultural export parks its hairy business end in Bombay next year (via <A href=\"http:\/\/jgohil.typepad.com\/desiflavor\/2005\/07\/the_next_fashio.html\">Desi Flavor<\/A>):<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<P>The first Planet Hollywood will open in Mumbai in 2006 and muscular superstars Sly Stallone and Bruce Willis will be flying down for the occasion&#8230; Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Goa and Hyderabad [are] the destinations of choice. [<A href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1050604\/asp\/weekend\/story_4805413.asp\">Link<\/A>]<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>Selling cowburgers and crappy food: it&#8217;s the ideal business plan for India <IMG src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/smile.gif\" align=absMiddle border=0>&nbsp;Actually, people are just as Hollystruck as Bollystruck, and you&#8217;ll notice they send out the action stars to overseas destinations &#8212; <EM>Rambo<\/EM> and <EM>Die Hard,<\/EM> with their limited dialogue, are amenable to cheap translation. <A href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/11427782\/new_york_ny\/mirchi.html\">Indian restaurants<\/A> have decked themselves in Bollywood memorabilia for ages. And if there&#8217;s one culture that has <A href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/camping_while_brown.html\">an unironic affinity for kitsch<\/A>&#8230;<\/P><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giant, shiny flying phallus of American cultural export parks its hairy business end in Bombay next year (via Desi Flavor): The first Planet Hollywood will open in Mumbai in 2006 and muscular superstars Sly Stallone and Bruce Willis will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/hollywoodbollyw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}