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 {{review|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business|Anita Elberse|R37SZE2OLOTDTN|25 April 2014|Contra {{bookreview|The Long Tail}}: the Fat Head.}}
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-If you’re the sort of person who sees only one movie a year, that movie is unlikely to be ''Dersu Uzala''.
+If you only see one movie a year, it’s not likely to be ''Dersu Uzala''.
 If you are a movie executive, this ought not to rock your world. It certainly isn't a function of the information revolution, and would have been as true when Derzu Uzala was released in 1976 as it is today. Yet it is the intellectual cornerstone of {{author|Anita Elberse}}’s provocative new book “Blockbusters” which, while dismantling the new-age canard of the [[Long Tail]], is otherwise far less overwhelming than the commentariat seems to believe.