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Still, those efforts haven’t stopped Hollywood moguls from churning out asteroid-themed blockbusters. “I went and watched Deep Impact, but I didn’t watch Armageddon,” said Spahr. “For Armageddon, I helped them do a promo, and we tried to tell them that it was pretty dumb. A Texas-sized asteroid was going to hit in what, two weeks? That would be as bright as Jupiter in the sky. You would go outside and go, ‘Oh crap, an asteroid...
Hollywood preview audiences cheer when his name sprawls across the screen. People ask for his autograph in airports. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has become the outsize star of his own Hollywood story. His hip, high-voltage action films of the '90s (Con Air, Bad Boys, Armageddon) established a new style for the Hollywood blockbuster and helped make superstars of Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage and Will Smith. Last year, with Pirates of the Caribbean, he even managed to mainstream reluctant celebrity Johnny Depp. Rare in the entertainment world, he has been able to transfer his instinct for the mass audience from movies...
...Afflecks? Clowns aside, there is a shallow pool of American leading men in their 30s. Affleck's pal Matt Damon has had hits and flops, though fewer of each than Ben. Same with Edward Norton. They all bound from action picture to indie, as Affleck has--from Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) to Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl), from starring in potential franchise pictures (The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil) to doing cameos in films by friends...
...obvious reasons. As Kushner notes, "Today, you can say we're approaching the end of things without sounding like a nut ... Those towers collapsing--it looked like something from a tarot deck." But even before 9/11, millennialism was in the American DNA, sowed by religious settlers awaiting Armageddon; it is embodied today by the many citizens who expect the Second Coming in their lifetimes, as well as by secular idealists and doomsayers who believe that America is not just on the verge of transformation but duty bound to create...
...Reading the script actually made me feel better in some ways. It is, quite simply, idiotic. Everyone is a caricature, manufactured and inauthentic. My father is depicted as some demented evangelist, going on about Armageddon every chance he gets. My mother is cast as a female Attila the Hun, and I and my siblings are unrecognizable to me. There are absurdities, like depictions of Mike Deaver and political aides camping out at our house during my father?s early political career - in every scene, there they are, hanging around the house day and night. I suppose this is meant...