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...acre Texas ranch, others sleep. Luckily, the Weinstein brothers at Miramax/Dimension Films are happy for him to work whenever he wants. That's the luxury afforded by being cheap. Rodriguez made the first two Spy Kids movies for a mere $38 million each, even though they featured marquee idols Antonio Banderas and George Clooney, and they made nearly $200 million. "Robert does everything but act, although now he has his kids in the movie as well," observes Bob Weinstein with a gravelly laugh. "If I were Antonio Banderas, I'd be a little nervous...
...idea made perfect sense to anyone who knew Rodriguez. Born in San Antonio, Rodriguez grew up in a Mexican-American family of 10 and started making movies at age 12 with a Super 8 video camera, using his brothers and sisters, "little kids who you'd think couldn't even tie their shoes doing action and comedy." These family-fueled shorts even won awards at some local film festivals. His sister Patricia Vonne says nobody was surprised when Robert became a filmmaker. "Dad's Super 8 was always glued to his head," she says. "It didn't even have...
...Kids are under such stress now at school with life the way it is," says Marla Rohwer of Highland, N.Y., who recently accompanied her daughter Sarah, 15, to a massage at SPAhhhT, a facility for those 17 and younger at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa outside San Antonio, Texas. "It's a lot of money, but for a special treat for a birthday, or if you're in pain...
...Holbrook, executive spa director at the newly opened Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Orlando, Fla., where the spa offers acne-treatment facials, fizzing salt manicures and other teencentric services. "There's been a real boom, and it's being felt throughout the hotel industry." Over Memorial Day weekend, the San Antonio Hyatt Regency opened SPAhhhT after being deluged by requests from parents. Since then, nearly 700 kids have visited, indulging in 25-minute facials at $40 a session and henna tattoos ranging from $4 to $20, depending on the design. As opposed to the Zen-like calm of the resort...
...exactly learning how to make a fire with two sticks, but perhaps just as useful. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/San Antonio, Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago, Broward Liston/Orlando, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles, Adam Pitluk/Dallas and Molly Worthen/Bryn Mawr