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Davi Kopenawa Yanomami cures ailing tribal brothers with incantations given to him by a fearsome anaconda spirit that slithers up from Amazonian waters. At least that's the way Davi describes it. Like other native medicine men in the Amazon rain forest, Davi relies on hallucinogenic powders to reach the spirit world, but this leader of the Yanomami Indians also wields a more modern means of communication: a two-way radio. When an otherworldly voice squawks through the speaker, Davi wraps up his shaman's crown of toucan feathers, dons uncomfortable city clothes and walks to a clearing...
Sony Pictures has become a cornucopia of hits: Jerry Maguire, Anaconda, My Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One (another split with Disney) and the summer's box-office champ, Men in Black, which has grossed $243 million in the U.S. alone. Funny thing is, these hits were put together by guys who got fired a year ago, after the studio suffered through more than five money-losing years that bottomed out with Sony Corp. taking a $3.2 billion write-off--essentially admitting its investment had been worthless. Despite having ably handled the flock of pictures he inherited, Calley...
...VOIGHT has chosen a fourth route. He has embraced his outer homeliness. Voight, 58, has come a long way since he played Rolf in Broadway's original Sound of Music, or even since his Oscar-winning turn as the archetypal '70s-sensitive guy in Coming Home. In Anaconda, Heat and U-Turn, Voight has proved he can be as scrofulous and evil as the next bad guy. But it takes some effort. "For Heat I was in the makeup chair for four hours," says Voight, who sought a "fungal quality" for his skin. "When I first arrived...
William G. Reach, who describes himself as a"sports innovator," came up with the idea for theball. J. Patrick Hoey, director of corporate salesat Anaconda Sports Inc. in New York, said thisweek that his company has agreed to manufactureprototypes of soccer balls identified with Carbon60...
...filled with knickknacks like miniature cities in bottles, cutouts of the Seven Dwarfs and a large cow decoy. Jack Nicholson's comment upon visiting the abode was: "Just exactly how old are the children?" While she sorts that out, she'd still like a good gander at a giant anaconda...