Word: attractions
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...Like Van Sant's Elephant, which traded off the Columbine shootings, Last Days is a pot of post-narrative sludge that hopes to attract an audience by alluding to a gruesome event, and turn a celebrity tragedy into an art film. "Although this film is inspired by the last days of Kurt Cobain," Van Sant and his lawyers declare, "it is a work of fiction and the characters and events portrayed are also fictional." In other words, we're not paying anybody...
There were many skeptical eyebrows raised in 2001 when, in a bid to boost tourism, the Chinese town of Zhongdian and the surrounding region were officially renamed Shangri-La. Whether visitors are genuinely attracted by the area's claim to be the location of James Hilton's classic 1930s novel Lost Horizon, or whether they come (as they always have done) for the spectacular mountain scenery and Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects - from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors...
...motorcycle or a race car. The characters he played faced long odds in a German POW camp (The Great Escape), at a poker table (The Cincinnati Kid) and in Faye Dunaway's arms (The Thomas Crown Affair), but the actor's wariness never failed him or failed to attract an audience. This DVD package and another, The Essential Steve McQueen Collection, are out this month: a 10-film fest honoring the silk-smooth roughneck, the Crown Prince of Cool...
...burqas concealed a group of Pakistani commandos who were waiting last week for a killer. U.S. and Pakistani intelligence had received a tip that a suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract a hostile mob, the commandos had donned female garb and accosted the suspect as his motorcycle crossed a graveyard. When the fugitive fled through a wheatfield, the commandos shed their burqas and flip-flops and gave chase, eventually cornering him in a house a mile away. After police tossed in tear...
...Obviously, his lyrics are very offensive to certain groups,” he says. “I was afraid that would attract the wrong element,” he says, adding that potentially violent gangs from Cambridge and nearby areas might have flocked there to be near the rap star...