Another popular and widespread form of entertainment is the small video booth, many hundreds of which are spread throughout the towns and small rural trading centres.
"We looked around the world for a place we could effect the most rapid change in the implementation of widespread 3-D entertainment and realized that China had the most fertile soil to make this happen," Mr. Cameron said.
"This is likely due to the fact that gaming is a more mature and widespread form of entertainment than in prior U.S. downturns and, in the case of the Las Vegas strip, a more expensive consumer-discretionary good".
Even if some skepticism surrounds the space idea, skepticism about reality shows is not widespread inside the network entertainment divisions.
A walkout by Hollywood's writers would bring the first widespread shutdown of the entertainment industry since a five-month writers' strike in 1988.
There has been widespread talk in the entertainment industry that Mr. Geffen and Mr. Spielberg, who signed contracts with Viacom when they sold DreamWorks, would not renew them when they end in 2008.
There was frustration in the newsroom about reporting entertainment news, but widespread recognition that the industry was changing and that they had to reconsider what was newsworthy.
But beyond the entertainment world, how widespread is the name Saint?
I believe that pornography as entertainment serves a widespread human need as a safe place to fantasize.
In a challenge to the widespread belief that the best-quality entertainment is now to be found in lengthy television drama series, producer Christine Langan, the head of BBC Films, has issued a rallying call to Britain's leading actors and screenwriters.
