1.   On screen gods and sods Popular movie images of men come under scrutiny in a special course.

2.   Among writers, Hollywood is well-known as a place where big promises are made and usually broken when it comes to turning literary novels into popular movies.

3.   And it updates weekly a list of the most popular movies and records.

4.   Bad weather helped business at the Blockbuster video store in nearby Northridge as customers came in early to rent popular movies before they were gone.

5.   Both popular movies were books first.

6.   Affluence means ready access to cable television and popular movies geared toward a youth audience.

7.   But his support came largely from the poor, who loved his persona as a tough man of the people when he was an actor in cheap popular movies.

8.   But the necessary tampering with a popular movie to retrofit it for the stage is a tricky business.

9.   Currently, theaters in big cities tend to get the first prints available of popular movies and cinemas in smaller towns must wait days or even weeks.

10.   Distributors of bootleg copies of popular movies often use these types of devices in theaters.