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...movie--the tale of the Bride, a reformed hitwoman (steely, implacable Uma Thurman) who is left for dead by her ex-colleagues and resolves to kill them all--is really about the motion, the emotion, the very movieness of movies. Released in two parts, like many a Shaw Bros. thriller of Hong Kong's golden past, Kill Bill is an effusion of movie love by the prime nerd-curator and hip creator of cult action films. Kill Bill is his thank-you note to the Hong Kong kung-fu epics, Japan's yakuza gangster dramas and '70s Italian westerns...
...founder Earl won't let go. "I have one desire in my business life," he says, "and that's to put Planet Hollywood back on top." A veteran restaurateur, Earl flits into Manhattan from his Florida home, and between brunch with Puffy, dinner with the Donald and beseeching Lehman Bros. to create a $50 million mezzanine fund, he pauses to reflect on his role as comeback kid. Last June, six months after Planet Hollywood International emerged from Chapter 11: Part 2, Earl scooped up the ailing Aladdin Resort & Casino for $635 million--half what it cost to build the three...
...spring, families in the summer and seniors in motor homes in the fall. When Gilley is not there, he's on the road with his 11-member band. "The energy that made him want to play and perform and entertain still exists," says Jim Ed Norman, president of Warner Bros. Records Nashville and a producer of several Gilley albums. "It's a primal, core essence of what artists are." Gilley also owns restaurants in Houston and Branson and licenses his name to a Las Vegas venue in addition to the Dallas club...
...correcting a reporter about the time of the event. In a decade of almost nonstop dealmaking since then, Weill has not only clawed his way back but last week was being hailed as the new king of Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says Weill, 64, of his odyssey: 'I never thought it could be anything approaching this.' ... Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting cast-off companies at fire-sale prices...
LARRY WACHOWSKI, co-creator (with his brother Andy) of The Matrix, is so secretive he has a no-publicity clause in his contract with Warner Bros. But details of his personal life are starting to leak out, and oh, my. According to documents posted on the website thesmokinggun.com Wachowski's estranged wife has had his business assets frozen until he accounts for $16 million the brothers were paid for the Matrix movies. "Larry has been extremely dishonest with me in our personal life," she writes. Whoa. And at the L.A. premier of The Matrix: Reloaded, Wachowski showed up with...