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...FLASHBULBS WERE POPPING two weeks ago when Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan showed up at a Hollywood theater for the premiere of Broken Arrow, the new John Travolta film. Make that the new John Woo film, for Hong Kong's No. 1 action auteur directed this $60 million thriller. Chan, whose gonzo melodrama Rumble in the Bronx hits 1,500 screens this week, was at the premiere to wish his home-town colleague well and to personify the friendly invasion of Hollywood by Hong Kong talent. Only one problem: by the time Jackie got inside, all the seats were...
...anything can enlighten Hollywood, it is the box office. Hong Kong films attract audiences worldwide, and Broken Arrow earned a burly $15.6 million its first weekend. Even a myopic mogul can see that the brisk, visceral Hong Kong style of acting and action could be the shot of adrenaline Hollywood needs to shake off its creative funk...
...York Times editorial with curious presidential marginalia. The editorial, which chastises Clinton for not cooperating with the Whitewater investigation, mentions Beverly Bassett Schaefer, whom then Governor Clinton appointed to the agency that oversees savings and loan associations in Arkansas. According to committee sources, the President drew an arrow from Schaefer's name and scrawled, in a reference to his 1992 campaign, "This is important to be on top of. Bassett did a good job in camp. on this--can she now?" Mark Fabiani, an associate White House counsel, argues that Clinton's note simply reflects his hope that she would...
...friend was a bow hunter, which means he was more interested in hunting than eating. He said that you had to call a turkey to within 25 yards of where you were lying, camouflaged, with your bow at full draw, to have a chance of killing one with an arrow. This is not easy. Other bow hunters say 10 yards is the right distance, which makes turkey hunting about as doubtful a proposition as observing elves and fairies dancing in a forest ring...
DIED. RALPH BLANE, 81, Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose 500 titles include Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Meet Me in St. Louis; in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma...