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...infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show is a dicer-peeler-grater...
...world as we know it? It could happen. Events of the past week have brought us to the brink of the ultimate summer blockbuster: a real-life Armageddon that might just be coming to a global economy near you. Here's how it could unfold...
...still have to sell the film. Godzilla went with size, plastering hints about its star's dimensions on 8,000 outdoor displays. Others try niche marketing. In ads on Ally McBeal, Armageddon peddles itself as a love story, with kissy spots featuring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. The idea is to attract Hollywood's hot new demographic, young females--the segment PaineWebber analyst Christopher Dixon calls "the new bobby-soxers...
...ARMAGEDDON (July 1). The last two big films to open on the July 4th weekend, Independence Day and Men in Black, earned a combined $1.375 billion worldwide. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's macho movies (The Rock, Con Air) do testosterrific at the wickets. So this Dirty Dozen in outer space will get a rousing send-off. If there's a question, it's about instant deja vu. Armageddon will be the second film this year to star Bruce Willis, to deal with an astral collision--and to destroy the Chrysler building...
...certain largely understated courage, as representative examples of humankind attempt to resist or try to accept the awful fate awaiting them. There's something curiously refreshing in the soberly inspirational way Deep Impact embraces the conventions of the old-fashioned disaster movie. You find yourself hoping that when Armageddon arrives, somebody as sensible, humane and good-fatherish as Morgan Freeman is in the White House; that the demographically useful teenager who discovers the threatening comet is a smart, plucky puppy like Elijah Wood; that somebody as down-home and dutiful as Robert Duvall is commanding the space mission charged with...