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...Kahne. Women make up 40% of NASCAR's 75 million viewers, but they aren't the prime target. The new marketers are going after the increasing number of urban and urbane male fans who gel and spritz--and might be swayed by racing's coolest stars. Kahne, a West Coaster with model looks, and rising star Vickers, a self-styled metrosexual, embody an emerging racing demographic. They're "fun, accessible, youthful," says a Garnier rep, perfect for the 18-to-34-year-olds who account for almost a third of NASCAR's audience. "It used to be considered a redneck...
...Assaults--the new one's pretty good, the old one near great--are of tone, style and perspective. Richet's m??tier is juiced, as edgy as Roenick's psyche; it favors obsessive-compulsive tracking shots and some Dolby rumblings that make the theater shudder like a wooden roller coaster. He gooses the actors to high agitation, except Fishburne, who remains Clyde Cool throughout. Indeed, it seems as if Fishburne is the only member of the company to have learned from the original...
...cool. The last show we had, Usher actually came out on my set to perform with me. This entire year has been like a roller-coaster ride, when I think back. I just feel so blessed at every opportunity to be on that stage with the biggest artist in the world. He really works hard; he's similar to me in that aspect. I've learned a lot from him. It's about getting a response out of the audience and being a great performer...
Without spoiling the ending, the thematic content complicates the conclusion but, ultimately, makes it much more interesting. The picture simultaneously spends our emotional fuel taking us on the roller coaster ride of love’s up and down’s, its joy’s and losses, its laughter and tears. By the conclusion, you may be too emotionally drained to feel anything, bringing his story surprisingly close to the conventions of true tragedy...
...that's not why we're here--not at the IMAX installation, anyway. We're here for the train. Or, more particularly, it's vertiginous journey. It is all S curves and roller-coaster ups and downs, with a skidding voyage across a literally trackless ice sheet thrown in for good measure. Older crocks will be reminded of the Cinerama adventures of their misspent youths, but this time the process is perfect--no annoying jiggles where the three screens of the old technology never quite matched. There are times when you'll pull back in your seat to avoid some...