One question: who's got photos of the stars dressed up as cheerleaders boinking underage Vietnamese prostitutes? Because it sounds like someone's got something on them. Something huge.

A Bollywood love story? Seriously, WTF?

So that said, what does that have to do with Bollywood being at Universal? Simple: the half BILLION or so in cash that the 3 Amigos needed as start up capital is coming from...yes, you guessed it...India. So I'm guessing that this project -- a big high profile thing that might have Stallone and Arnie together for the first time -- might be one of their initial development projects or deals to start allowing more cross work between Bollywood, it's money, and Hollywood. Here, you can read Nikki Finke's article about the Dreamwork's financing deal...

http://tinyurl.com/5 dfzru

But what hardly anyone knows is that Spielberg has the right to elect to be involved in any project that DreamWorks has developed at Paramount. As an ex-Paramount business affairs source once told me, Steven's so-called "Amblin deal" would apply even if he chooses to leave and is no longer under contract. He'd still make 7.5% of the gross and 50% of the profits to cash break. And if Paramount decides the projects won't be made, they have to be offered to Spielberg in turnaround. So this means Paramount may have to fork over major moolah. Or the likeliest scenario is that Spielberg uses this huge leverage so that Paramount and DreamWorks wind up horse-trading some key development projects.

how fucking cool was that!?!

So?

If only the Bollywood movies weren't all the same.

Case in point, up above Bong -- who must REALLY be smoking some seriously strong shit today -- stated (and I quote): "Sigh. Some people think they're entitled to a high paying job. Its a new world out there. You're competing against someone who is just as educated, more industrious and who will work for less. Instead of complaining about it get off your lazy ass."

You're kidding me, right? You're trying to take the issue of outsourced jobs and reduce it to the notion that Americans are NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH? That they need to get off their "lazy asses"? Well, here's my diplomatic response to that: Fuck you. About 2 years ago, I lost my job and had to restart my life (and the year before that, so did my brother) because both of our companies -- covering two different industries -- decided why pay American workers an honest day's wage when instead they could be paying outsourced workers overseas pennies on the dollar to do the same computer work.

Bottom line: it wasn't an issue about our "laziness" -- though that's what management tried to laughably claim in shutting down my job and putting me and my co-workers out on the streets. In fact, we even brought in a Federal Mediator to try and resolve the deadlock, at which point the company said it wouldn't ship our jobs overseas so long as we...yes, wait for it...QUADRUPLED our daily computer workloads. They said that was the only way to make the company "economicially feasible" given how LITTLE they could hire people overseas, who could then simply transmit the data back. At which point, during a break in negotiations, even the Federal Mediator -- who by law is supposed to remain neutral and unbiased -- turned to us in private and said, "This is utter horse shit. Even I can tell these guys are just stalling for time to start shipping your jobs overseas. They're just dragging these talks along while they get their chess pieces in place so there's no disruption of cash flow. We're wasting our time here."

So don't even try giving me that line that "Americans are just lazy workers" in a global economy. It's not about me getting up earlier or staying later at work. It's about the simple cold, hard fact that NO American worker can afford to compete against outsourced workers who are willing to do your job for fucking 50 cents an hour just to secure the work and THEN start to demand pay raises over time to escalate their standards of living. Hey, I understand where they're coming from. You now have college educated, computer literate grads in poor countries saying "Hey, I'll do it for a FRACTION of the money just to get ANY work at all" -- but that just creates bullshit economics because what American...blue collar worker or even in my case, white collar computer literate...can compete against slave labor rates? Hey, in principle I'm basically economically conservative for the most part, even I would recognize that at THAT point the U.S. has to start placing restrictions over "what" kind of work or services a company should be allowed to outsourced IF it means putting Americans out of work and out on the streets.

...At which point India will erupt in riots. And of course, much like the Gere incident, once again India will blame it all on "ugly Americans" for being so morally bankrupt that we'd actually dare kiss a woman or show affection in public. So it just seems like a crock to me. How sex-driven Hollywood and sex-repressed Bollywood are supposed to work together long term is beyond me...

Western countries have been exploiting foreign countries for cheap resources for years. Its why people in the West have been able to enjoy everything from food crops, clothing, tech products, and other goods at affordable prices. Western corporations and governments eventually realized, 'Why not exploit those countries for cheap labour too?'. Now all of a sudden, the westerners affected start criticizing the foreigners for this. Globalization is a two-way street. You can't support it only when it works for you.

At least Big Dump Ape lives up to his name.

And your apology is accepted. Thats why you'll never rise above the rank of Duke.

And as you rightly pointed out, Duke, at least in my post I FAIRLY acknowledged WHY a foreign worker is trying to steal and secure outsourced American work -- they're willing to take ANYTHING to start their own economic ball rolling, after which THEN they'll start to drive up prices right back up, feeling they can now manipulate the system to THEIR advantage. In short, and in fairness, they're only looking out for themselves. In fact, this was best demonstrated recently when the Indian Foreign Minister -- in a move that surprised many except those who understand basic human nature and greed -- said a very loud "Fuck you" to the environmental Greeneis of the world and to any and all possible climate change regulations, when he stated that NOTHING comes in front of India's efforts to industrialize itself into a modern economic powerhouse. So if that means buying up and consuming more oil and spewing out more pollution...so it can now rival America or China or the entire EU...so be it. Basically he said, "After we get it the way WE like it, THEN we'll talk. But till then, PISS OFF."

But going back to my post, as I said -- and Bobo is truly an unintelligent Bobo worthy of his name if he can't understand this simple basic fact -- you CAN'T have American workers struggling away, where BY LAW a minimum wage has to be paid to them, competing against overseas workers willing to work BELOW said wage levels. Hell, not even below them, but at subterranean depths in comparison. And Bobo, you said (quote): "What does any of that have to do with Big Dumb Ape saying 'FUCK countries like India taking outsourced American jobs.' He blames foreign workers, not the US government or companies."

Earth to moron who can't read: clearly I was criticizing the companies TOO, which is WHY I noted how even a Federal Mediator took note that the COMPANY was just stalling for time at the bargaining table while it got its ducks lined up. So in truth my post DID criticize BOTH ends of the scale, noting the company was wrong to sell out its workers AND that foreigner workers are also to blame for undercutting American workers in ways that no one can compete against, not if they want to actually be able to pay their bills.

So in the end, Bobo, we've learned two things here today. First, you know squat about economics, or whatever you do know is based on an anti-Western sentiment. And second, Rappin Duke was right when he stated that you have such LOW reading skill levels that your pea-sized brain can't even understand the MAIN IDEA of a post.

I also hate the fact that they think they are superior to other ethnic races or cultures while so eager to embrace on particular race.(What's up with the dellusions of granduer?!?)Fuck Bollywood and triple fuck greedy American Corporations that are quick to export jobs overseas, while still charging high costs for their businesses.Oh and mutha fuck "Ahhnold" Schwartzenegger while I'm at it.

Stay classy, AICN...

With that out of the way, thanks Knucleface for providing a more detailed explanation of why call centers have moved overseas.And I concur with your reasons 5-7.It's however sad when so many Americans are losing their jobs due to the ailing economy and not to mention that unemployment extentions are very limited these days thanks to Bush and his goddamn vetos.Hopefully we will see better days ahead.

Obama 08!!

Bollywood has shit all to do with India. Their music videos and movies are racey in a different way than American movies. Take out the sex, take out any meaning or context, and have gratuitous softcore foreplay in the form of song/dance (Bollywood's changed in the last few years, if this sounds unfamiliar you might be remembering the '90s, '80s and earlier).

Now someone tell me how the FUCK does this happen from a culture which sought to FINE Richard Gere for kissing that one actress? Nothing in those movies has any correlation to Indians or their lives, yet "Bollywood" somehow pumps out a million of these and they're tolerated by that culture which frowns upon everything else.

So where the fuck did this crap come from? Because that's what it is, crap.

This story means nothing. Arnie and Sly still haven't been in a real movie together.