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Kasdan isn't the person you would expect to be doing this. He's the guy who makes smart, touching, talky movies--The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist, Body Heat--not Dreamcatcher, the horror movie based on the 2001 Stephen King novel. "I read the book, and I thought, It's like a Kasdan story," the director says. "Except in my story they would go out in the woods and talk, and nothing would happen." But Kasdan was, after all, the writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark before directing many of what he calls...
...revive him. "When we opened him up," said one, "there was a hole as big as a nutmeg at the front of his heart. I think he was dead before he fell." That night the warm temperatures Serbs had been enjoying for days suddenly gave way to a damp chill, and it started to snow. As police sirens wailed through the night, thousands gathered outside the main government buildings to light candles and sign a book of condolences. "If these criminals win, I don't want to raise my son in this country," said Milana Stepanovic, 34, a hairdresser...
...supporting roles. Sarah Porter delivers as the tough, ornery maid Olivia, even if Olivia refuses to deliver for her employers. She is particularly brilliant in the early comic scenes with Faiman. The duo walks the fine line between comedy and tragedy, giving the audience both a laugh and a chill as they physically and verbally abuse one another. Though the comedy dissipates as the play charges forward, Porter handles her role as the awkward caretaker of Nena perfectly...
Winerman says he has no immediate plans of going to the university to make the group official. “I really like this as a chill organization,” he says. “Maybe next year, to assure that it’s continued, but for now I don’t want to get into the bureaucracy...
...Snow Falls, Dollar Plunges Finance: True to his name, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow sent a chill through currency markets last week, apparently reversing the Bush Administration's "strong dollar policy" when he said he didn't see "anything troubling" in the dollar's plunge of 20% over the past year. The buck promptly hit a four-year low of $1.10 to the euro. And while Snow spent the next day scrambling to "reiterate my support for the strong dollar," it plumbed new lows throughout the week - pushed down by a huge 300,000 increase in U.S. unemployment during February...