The Bangkok boys' club: Four Hollywood figures talk about the future of Asia-Pacific entertainment

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The Bangkok boys' club
Four Hollywood figures with impressive CVs have set up shop in Thailand. They talk about the future of Asia-Pacific entertainment with Jason Gagliardi
Jason Gagliardi

BANGKOK: -- Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was a game that captured the popular imagination for a time. The universal law that underpinned it was that you could link any celebrity back to Kevin Bacon in six moves or fewer, illustrating the incestuous and tangled web that connects the entertainment world, or perhaps just the ubiquity of the Footloose star.

But among the four men recently gathered in Bangkok's Friese-Greene Club, a private cinema club, one or perhaps two moves would do the trick.

Collectively, the fellows sipping iced water and exchanging the latest showbiz banter have done just about every conceivable job in the film, television and theatrical worlds in the course of four very different but equally colourful careers. They have mixed with the best of Hollywood and European cinema, but choose to base themselves in Bangkok, at least when their peripatetic work schedules allow.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was a game that captured the popular imagination for a time. The universal law that underpinned it was that you could link any celebrity back to Kevin Bacon in six moves or fewer, illustrating the incestuous and tangled web that connects the entertainment world, or perhaps just the ubiquity of the Footloose star.

But among the four men recently gathered in Bangkok's Friese-Greene Club, a private cinema club, one or perhaps two moves would do the trick.

Collectively, the fellows sipping iced water and exchanging the latest showbiz banter have done just about every conceivable job in the film, television and theatrical worlds in the course of four very different but equally colourful careers. They have mixed with the best of Hollywood and European cinema, but choose to base themselves in Bangkok, at least when their peripatetic work schedules allow. [read more...]

Full story: http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1502509/bangkok-boys-club

-- South China Morning Poat 2014-05-05

[kkup]

Four more middle aged men who can't pick up at home just discovered Thailand.

[soalbundy]

Entertainment? we've got that on the streets already,for free!!

[tingtongteesood]

Proud to say I am 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon.

[HeavyDrinker]

Proud to say I am 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon.

I'm one degree from Smokey bacon....

[SandyFeet]

who are they???

[isnakebite]

Not entirely sure Sandy but one of them is a production designer with credits which include the shameless and woeful hollywood remake of "Bangkok Dangerous". Thailand can be resourceful for great films if as is generally the case, there is at least a decent script, good actors and editor. "Only God Forgives" and "Uncle Boonmee" are fine examples of this.

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