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Jerry Bruckheimer loves guys who love cars. He produces movies for them, four-on-the-floor vehicles like Days of Thunder (Tom Cruise in a stock car, making two hours of left turns) and The Rock (Nicolas Cage revving a yellow Ferrari). Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, even Top Gun and Con Air (planes are just cars on a highway of clouds) and Armageddon (grease monkeys in outer space), all celebrate speed, combat and heavy machinery--three things that make every ride a macho adventure. A Bruckheimer movie without a car chase would be like a Woody Allen movie without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Bruckheimer's new one, the loud, fast and terminally conflicted Gone in 60 Seconds, must be his Annie Hall--the apotheosis of his obsessions. It's a love story about a man and his car. Actually, a man and other people's cars, for Randall ("Memphis") Raines (Cage) is a car thief, a legend among the felon class of Long Beach, Calif. Six years ago, Memphis gave up stealing cars so his young brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) would have a better role model. But Kip went into boosting cars anyway, and now he's in trouble. Your standard movie wacko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...press notes for Gone in 60 Seconds feature some cute bits of data: the first car owned by each prominent member of the cast and crew ("Cage's first purchase was a yellow Triumph Spitfire he bought for $2,000"). These folks treasure their cars and might not think highly of a fellow who stole them. Yet the film has few quibbles about the ethics of boosting. Hey, guys in the film (and guys who made it): maybe a wage slave left his PC in the trunk of that Toyota you stole; maybe a child's first drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson faced a tough opponent in the Ivy Champions and national runner-up. But in the first period, as Harvard held the ball around the Tigers' cage for the first five minutes, it seemed like everyone was just waiting--for someone, something, maybe a Princeton mistake...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Sees Mixed Results | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Cynar continuously found opposing attackmen on his crease with a nice, open view of his cage...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Sees Mixed Results | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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