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Richard Gere has it easy fighting China: just hanging out with the Dalai Lama and leading protests in front of the White House. You want hard? Try being Alec Baldwin, head of the Creative Coalition, balled up on a bus for a three-hour predawn ride from New York to Massachusetts to collect signatures for state-campaign-finance reform. The coffee's awful, and his cell phone doesn't work. "We should have a working phone, even if you have to FedEx one," the actor growls as he tosses the offending cellular to an aide. Maybe...
Charles (Anthony Hopkins) is rich beyond the dreams of greed--his dreams, anyway. Other people may have other ideas. Take Robert (Alec Baldwin), a fashion photographer who seems way too chummy with Charles' supermodel wife (Elle Macpherson). On a photo shoot in the Great White North, the two men--Robert with strength and youth, Charles with loads of book learning--fly off in a small plane to an even remoter location. "So," Charles asks Robert, "how are you planning to kill me off?" Seconds later, the plane crashes...
...Kennedy but just in the movies, you are also fair game--although the stars tend to fight back. George Clooney urged a boycott of Paramount Pictures TV shows because of their use of video paparazzi footage of him and his girlfriend. Alec Baldwin scuffled with a photographer who confronted his wife Kim Basinger and their newborn daughter as they came home from the hospital. Robert De Niro, Will Smith and Woody Harrelson have all fought with the shooters...
...accentuate the nuances of expression in the acting, highlighting just how good the acting is. Peter O'Toole gives an incomparable performance as "El-Orence"--his first major motion picture: now there's a stunning debut. He's worthily supported by a powerhouse cast--including Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Claude Rains...
...effort to record Africa's vanishing trove of rock art, David Coulson, a Nairobi-based photographer, and Alexander ("Alec") Campbell, former director of Botswana's National Museum and Art Gallery, are crisscrossing the continent, visiting known sites, stumbling across new ones and photographing as much of the art as they can. Everywhere they go they have found images dulled by sunlight, wind and water and damaged by chemical seepage from mining operations, tourism and outright vandalism. "There's an incredible amount of rock art out there," Coulson says, "and little has been done to preserve...