Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stallone wants to save himself. His forays into farce (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) and romance (remember Rhinestone?) were low-level disasters. His recent action films have been box-office duds at home, though usually robust moneymakers abroad; last year's Daylight earned only $33 million in North America but $120 million elsewhere, making Sly a pricey export commodity. "He epitomizes the state our industry is in," says Daylight director Rob Cohen. "With Rocky he proved a $1 million film could be a big hit. Now we want to make movies for the global market...
...other things; he's a mess of anxieties. "I have an inability to feel validated," he confesses. "There's a persistent hunger, which is disconcerting and sometimes debilitating. You ask yourself when can you sit back and not have anything to prove? But I do have something to prove." Daylight hardly prepared him for the promise and threat of Cop Land. "I didn't know if I had developed enough bad habits to not work with good actors again," he says. "If you don't deliver, they can't morph good acting. I felt the way Michael Jordan must have...
...Daylight betrays the real Shenyang, a grimy industrial town northeast of Beijing that is sunk in despair. Once the shining star of Maoist industrial production, the city has lost its way in the changeover to private enterprise. Last night's revelers have been replaced by a handful of dejected men with nothing to do but smoke. More bicycles than cars circle the square as those still toiling in the antiquated state-owned factories that make products no one buys head for their redundant jobs. The reason so many people pack the square at night, says an only nominally employed factory...
...cited the case of a female jogging on Weeks Bridge over the Charles River early this academic year and was raped in broad daylight...
...worse for the rebels, who had become dispirited and inattentive. "This will never end," one of them complained to a hostage the day before the rescue. "They were most ready for a raid after midnight or at 6 in the morning," says Gumucio. "They never expected something in broad daylight...