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...Family revelations. Spielberg movies are often about the separation and reconstituting of a family, and the last two Indy films are no exception. In Last Crusade we met Indy's father (Sean Connery) and learned that Indy's real name was Henry Jones, Jr. Indeed, "Junior" was Dad's apparently derogatory form of address for his son. That gag is repeated here, since - as everyone who's paid the slightest attention to pre-release scuttlebutt knows - Mutt is Indy's son by Marion. (Why is he called Mutt? Presumably because, as we learned at the end of The Last Crusade...
When I was growing up in Baltimore, he had long moved away to become [laughs] one of the most famous composers of the 20th century. I remember when I was thinking of leaving Baltimore to do journalism, my mom said to my dad, "Well, Philip moved away, and he did O.K." And I remember thinking, Can we lower the expectations a little here...
MOVIES What Happens in Vegas Directed by Tom Vaughan; written by Dana Fox; rated PG-13; out now She (Cameron Diaz) has just been dumped by the creep she adores. He (Ashton Kutcher) has been fired by his boss--his dad. They meet in Las Vegas, get drunk and married and spend the rest of this hectic comedy trying to decide if they're in hate or in love. (Guess.) It's all pretty formulaic, but the stars make it, well, not nearly as awful as it should...
Tony Stark tinkers in his lab to build a gadget that will keep him alive and a metal suit in which to house the artificial organ: the media dub him Iron Man. Speed Racer drives the car built by his dad to win the big rallies and in the process becomes one with his souped-up T180...
...didn't get into broadcast journalism, what do you think you'd be doing today? -Philip Maddatu, TORONTOI have no clue. Maybe writing poetry. I was so relieved when I discovered journalism. When my dad was running for Vice President, [I would] sit in the back of the plane with the journalists, and it opened my eyes. I thought at the time that politics and how people view politicians will be made by the people in the back of the plane a lot more than the people in the front...