Word: croft
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...please, spare us the equal-opportunity keening about Charlie's Angels and Tomb Raiders. The first series is a kung-fu pajama party; the giga-giggling Angels are girls, not adult women. Katharine Hepburn had more vim than the three of them put together. And Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft, for all her googol-24-36 figure, is emotionally not a woman at all. She's a rumbustious guy whose response to nearly any challenge is to open the artillery...
...Lara Croft, Here I Come The karate master, a mean-looking dude with a Fu Manchu mustache, attacks me from the left. I knock him out with a swift kick to the stomach. Kazaaam! He comes back at me from the right, so I retaliate with a masterful chop to the chin. Pow! This fight sequence is playing out on my TV screen, but it's really me in the picture. Thanks to EyeToy, Sony's latest advance on the computer game, anyone can be an action hero. Launched in the U.K. last week and due across Europe this summer...
Jolie, speaking in a telephone interview from England, begs to differ. “Lara Croft is so confident . . . I’m more casual, not like her in that way. [The producers] and I had a long meeting about the shorts,” Jolie chuckles as she reflects on her character’s revealing wardrobe...
...upcoming film Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life enjoys as much success as the first installment of the franchise—which grossed nearly $300 million worldwide in summer 2001—Jolie looks to preserve her star appeal, shorts...
...named Maddox, Jolie has reorganized her priorities and is now apt to approach film projects from a parent’s point of view. Prior to joining the Tomb Raider cast, she says she seriously questioned the issue of violence in video games, deciding in the end that Lara Croft “is actually a good...