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...always shooting these "family comedies" with my brothers and sisters that would actually win at festivals and stuff. But the actual genesis of Spy Kids itself came when I was shooting my segment of Four Rooms and I saw the kids in their tuxedos and commented to Antonio [Banderas] that they looked like little spies. So then I got to thinking about a mini-James Bond secret agent story, although I didn't pursue it right away because I knew it would require some sizable special effects and I felt I should get some FX experience under my belt first...
Zecha has created yet another version of his lifestyle in a second chain that he founded last year, Maha Resorts (maha means great in Sanskrit). The first offering?Mahakua-Hacienda de San Antonio, a converted 19th-century hacienda once owned by Sir James Goldsmith?opened in western Mexico last October. In a few months, the two resort chains will merge under the Amanresorts umbrella...
...Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...highest appeals panel, declared hundreds of thousands of bank loans illegally usurious and put them up for renegotiation. That included loans made before the 1996 legislation. What's more, the court said that the banks would have to repay any excess interest they had collected in the past. Antonio Fazio, governor of the Bank of Italy, warned that banks stood to lose up to $24 billion...
Olympians are urged to aim high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen...