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...appropriate that blaxploitation's theatrical tribute came this summer from a pair of popcorn movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...
...with a big voice and a booming laugh, he jokes, he chats, he hugs and pats his way through a room. The 48-year-old Democrat made a sparkling career by forging alliances across ideological and racial lines, from his election as senior class president at a largely white Austin high school through two runaway victories as mayor of Dallas, a Republican citadel. When George W. was a Governor toying with the idea of a run for the White House, his nickname for Kirk, then an ally, was "Vice President...
...Kirk says he has no choice but to enlist outside support since he's looking down the barrel of Bush's fund-raising might. The President and Vice President have already flown home on Cornyn's behalf; Laura Bush will appear at a Cornyn money drive this week in Austin, where the price of a photo with the First Lady will be $5,000. While the two campaigns have raised equivalent war chests, Cornyn has just begun to tap his, while Kirk had to spend heavily to win a three-way Democratic primary. "I have to be on TV when...
Like any James Bond parody, Austin Powers in Goldmember begins with a big chase scene: Austin on a winding road after a hot blond in a hot car. At the end of the scene, Austin turns to the camera--and we see it's not Mike Myers but...well, a major star who recently had dental work...
...film. Early changes: Hermione will develop Spanish accent, precocious sexuality SNOOP DOGGY DOGG Rapper inks deal to produce an action figure in his own likeness. Cute, but what child has the patience to braid all those itty-bitty cornrows? Losers ELIZABETH HURLEY Fab femme is edited out of new Austin Powers movie because she's not funny. If that's the criteria-then when is Beyonc? getting the boot? TINA BROWN Former Talk editor's contract bought out early by Miramax for $1 million. That should about cover her lunch tab at the Royalton Hotel JEFFREY ARCHER British novelist loses...