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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (255089)10/14/2005 4:28:42 AM
From: Amy J  Read Replies (1) of 1571281
 
``Worldwide, movies and DVDs generate only $100 billion a year. And yet Hollywood's power to influence people is tremendous, so the impact that it has on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. I see it as a very powerful medium, in the same way that Silicon Valley has such a huge impact throughout the world, and yet it's really a pretty tiny community.''

When he founded Participant Productions last year -- to make pictures that not only do well at the box office, but also good in the world -- Skoll relied on a concept called ``the virtuous cycle''

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I really hope he is successful with this, and I hope he enables variety of opinion around different people's perceptions of good. Regards, Amy J
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