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...rush, and could earn $60 million to $80 million. But Hollywood counts on big stars, muscular action, high concept-and Disney cartoons-to bring in the really serious money. So here's what Americans will get in six successive weekends after Crimson Tide opens: Die Hard with a Vengeance; Casper (the friendly ghost, now a live-action apparition); Madison County; the killer-ape thriller Congo; Batman Forever; and Pocahontas. Then no fewer than three big-adventure films will go head to head: Judge Dredd; Ron Howard's astronaut drama Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks; and the current TV favorite...
Rule No. 1: Remake what worked before. So The Flintstones (live-action cartoon) begets Casper; The Crow (movie version of a comic book-sorry, graphic novel) sires Judge Dredd; the Ninja Turtles frenzy of recent yore gives way to Morphin endorphins. Four Hollywood pictures last year (the megahit True Lies, as well as the less successful Intersection, Mixed Nuts and My Father, the Hero) were based on French films; so is Nine Months, a comedy about an expectant couple (Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore). The high grosses of three Michael Crichton novels-into-films in two years (Jurassic Park, Rising...
University President Gerhard Casper and Provost Condoled Rice issued a statement yesterday responding to the latter three demands. It established committees to study each issue...
...money we could have a ChicanoStudies program and we wouldn't have this problemany way, so in a way [Casper] is kind of workingon the problem," Marek added. "I think moststudents feel that way, but not the vocal ones...
...just as I was booking cars I didn't need, they introduced segments. That meant that if I flew from Seattle to Vancouver via Chico, Oshkosh, Bullhead City and Purgatory (Colorado), I might clock up enough miles to make the same trip for free! Alternatively, if I flew to Casper, stayed in the most expensive hotel around, made some calls to Zaire at prime rates and rented a car to drive back to the airport, I might be able to return home without paying. The shortest distance between two points was the slowest way to get ahead...